Lauren Camp
Stride
Sidemen
The Shout
Mingus:
disruption conducted with exaltations of turbulence
a visceral prayer at high pressure in the humming of his congregation
(based on a photo by Yoram Kahana)
Loudest Noise
He controlled unused space — austerely
refining each minimized fragment
His enigmas were technical and frugal
(based on a photo by Don Hunstein)
Just Swing
Backbeat
The backbeat is the 2+4
the underline
the steady 4+2
(based on a photo by Jim Gale)
To see more of Lauren’s work and for details, you can visit her website here.
Lauren Camp consistently and creatively uses art, voice, poetry and sound to move others. Her visual artwork, made primarily with fabric, has found its way into children’s hospitals, public housing, police stations, community centers, United States Embassies in Ukraine, Turkmenistan and Mali, and other organizations around the world. As an artist, she is perhaps best known for “The Fabric of Jazz,” her series of jazz portraits. This series toured museums in ten U.S. cities between January 2004 and September 2007. Thousands viewed the spirited, musical exhibit. As one viewer stated, “Lauren Camp’s art forces dialogue. Her truth taps into all our truths. Every line that she draws leads us back to the human.”
She is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently The Dailiness, winner of the New Mexico Press Women 2014 Poetry Book Prize and a World Literature Today “Editor’s Pick.” Her third book, One Hundred Hungers, won the Dorset Prize, and will be published by Tupelo Press.
Also, since 2004, Lauren has been a producer and host for KSFR-FM, Santa Fe Public Radio. Her show, “Audio Saucepan,” intertwines a genre-defying mix of music with contemporary poetry. The program airs Sundays from 6-7PM Mountain Standard Time.
www.laurencamp.com