“Nerveless” (a title from D.H. Lawrence’s “Autumn at Taos)” began a site-specific sculpted poetry installation created by artist Sara D. Rivera for the 2015 Taos Paseo. Locally sourced wood was crafted into the text of a poem and hung from the adobe walls of businesses along Teresina Lane, just off of Taos Plaza. Viewers could read this poem backwards or forwards as they moved through the space.
The lines displayed came from the artist’s poem “summer at taos”, which was written in response to D.H. Lawrence’s “Autumn at Taos” and meant to reflect her particular experience of the Taos community.
The Taos community is invited to submit their own seasonal poetry as part of this interactive blog. Think about Taos in the summer, autumn, winter and spring: what are the unique atmospherics of place? What is the seasonal culture of Taos, and how can you capture it as D.H. Lawrence did? Email poems to sdr.arts@gmail.com (no deadline). Selected poems will be posted seasonally on this blog.
Participating writers can also tweet micro-poems using hashtag #nervelesstaos.
About the Artist/Founder:
Sara D. Rivera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Albuquerque, now based in Boston. She holds a BFA in Art Studio and BA in English from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her practice includes sculpture, music, performance, poetry, and translation. She has worked as a collaborative teaching artist with the Urbano Project (Jamaica Plain, MA), and has exhibited at the 2015 Taos Paseo, the Urbano Project, the Factory on 5th Art Space (Albuquerque), the TAN Gallery (Albuquerque), and worked with Gallery Benoit (Boston). Her poetry appears in the Loft Anthology, DIALOGIST, Origins Literary, and elsewhere.
Nerveless Taos 