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Poet Patria Rivera and artist Joe Rivera share their art through poetry and paintings. Patria Rivera will read from haiku written before the Covid-19 pandemic and revised during the months of lockdown, while Joe Rivera will share the artwork he has painted to counter months of self-quarantine. Their hope is that transcendent sketching from life can bring heightened awareness or capture the sublime even in uncertain times.
As Patria Rivera notes: “The haiku in this collection aim to bring old forms with new aesthetics, to limn from ordinary life moments that pierce and captivate, that probe and question the self against forces—living and nonliving, both visible and invisible—that surround us."
BE: 2011
There are things one cannot ever hope to understand. Does existence precede essence even if essence was available? In a collage of disparate images, the BE poems spin together individual and collective states of feelings to examine the fragments of the human condition in little existences.
READING: Interpretation of John Cage’s 4’ 33”
Asian Heritage Month Festival, Innis Hall, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 7, 2017
Interpretation of John Cage’s 4’ 33” – Patria Rivera
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"
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Henry David Thoreau
Patria Rivera
Poet and Writer