Brendan Constantine
@brendanconstantine.bsky.social
LA poet and educator. Author of several collections. Work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, among other journals. Currently teaches at The Windward School. Since 2017, I’ve been developing workshops for writers with Aphasia.
“I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.” - Conrad
Collage made from a 1947 portrait of Peter Ustinov by Irving Penn, NASA image of the planet Jupiter (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) and stock photographs of cars, Ca. 1959
Collage made from a 1947 portrait of Peter Ustinov by Irving Penn, NASA image of the planet Jupiter (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) and stock photographs of cars, Ca. 1959
June 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.” - Conrad
Collage made from a 1947 portrait of Peter Ustinov by Irving Penn, NASA image of the planet Jupiter (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) and stock photographs of cars, Ca. 1959
Collage made from a 1947 portrait of Peter Ustinov by Irving Penn, NASA image of the planet Jupiter (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) and stock photographs of cars, Ca. 1959
"The answer is Yes until it's No." - Collage made from an etching of a rhinoceros by David Barthold, an unattributed illustration of a child with a balloon from Collier's magazine, 1940, and a portable television from an issue of the Radio Shack catalogue. (Quote from my mother.)
June 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"The answer is Yes until it's No." - Collage made from an etching of a rhinoceros by David Barthold, an unattributed illustration of a child with a balloon from Collier's magazine, 1940, and a portable television from an issue of the Radio Shack catalogue. (Quote from my mother.)
‘The Weather’ - Collage made from original photos of objects at my workplace, laid into John Constable’s ‘Cloud Study’ of 1822. It’s the second time I’ve used Constable’s beautiful work. If you don’t know it, go look it up without my silly meddling!
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM
‘The Weather’ - Collage made from original photos of objects at my workplace, laid into John Constable’s ‘Cloud Study’ of 1822. It’s the second time I’ve used Constable’s beautiful work. If you don’t know it, go look it up without my silly meddling!
Fascinated by this 1750 effort to portray multiple universes. It appears in ‘An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe’ by Thomas Wright (1711-1786), currently on display at LACMA as part of ‘Mapping the Infinite’. I’ll be doing an in-gallery writing class there in Feb! More info soon!
November 17, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Fascinated by this 1750 effort to portray multiple universes. It appears in ‘An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe’ by Thomas Wright (1711-1786), currently on display at LACMA as part of ‘Mapping the Infinite’. I’ll be doing an in-gallery writing class there in Feb! More info soon!
“who
is invisible enough
to see you?”
- Paul Celan, from ‘ Show-fringes, sense-fringes’
Collage of ‘Foxes and their young in a clearing in the forest,’ an etching by J.E. Ridinger (1698–1767), a 1948 illustration by Gil Elvgren, and ‘journal text’ from Autumn Clark at Sew Paper Paint.
is invisible enough
to see you?”
- Paul Celan, from ‘ Show-fringes, sense-fringes’
Collage of ‘Foxes and their young in a clearing in the forest,’ an etching by J.E. Ridinger (1698–1767), a 1948 illustration by Gil Elvgren, and ‘journal text’ from Autumn Clark at Sew Paper Paint.
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 PM
“who
is invisible enough
to see you?”
- Paul Celan, from ‘ Show-fringes, sense-fringes’
Collage of ‘Foxes and their young in a clearing in the forest,’ an etching by J.E. Ridinger (1698–1767), a 1948 illustration by Gil Elvgren, and ‘journal text’ from Autumn Clark at Sew Paper Paint.
is invisible enough
to see you?”
- Paul Celan, from ‘ Show-fringes, sense-fringes’
Collage of ‘Foxes and their young in a clearing in the forest,’ an etching by J.E. Ridinger (1698–1767), a 1948 illustration by Gil Elvgren, and ‘journal text’ from Autumn Clark at Sew Paper Paint.
“Only the future knows art.” - Julianna McCarthy - Unfinished collage made from detail of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Inmaculada Concepción de los
Venerables 1660-1665) and microscopic image of a cancer cell during division, (National Institutes of Health).
Venerables 1660-1665) and microscopic image of a cancer cell during division, (National Institutes of Health).
January 19, 2024 at 6:01 AM
“Only the future knows art.” - Julianna McCarthy - Unfinished collage made from detail of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Inmaculada Concepción de los
Venerables 1660-1665) and microscopic image of a cancer cell during division, (National Institutes of Health).
Venerables 1660-1665) and microscopic image of a cancer cell during division, (National Institutes of Health).