Books, tangible expressions of information and inspiration, are as vital to the heart of a library collection as is access to digital resources. In conceptualizing CUMULATE, my proposal included the design and production of a full color accompanying artist book incorporating braille and a website to house vocal and morse code audio recordings of the selected Nebraska poems.
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CUMULATE has brought a lot of special connections together! Last fall one of my colleagues told me about a telegrapher that demonstrates morse code at the Hill and Valley Antique Auto & Americana Show. Of course I had to go! There I saw Don Mahoney, a telegrapher since he was 15, tapping out messages while his friend at another “station" transcribed messages for the curious. I told him about CUMULATE and after learning a bit about American Morse Code and listening to colorful stories of telegraphy during World War II, I asked if Don would be the Morse Code Translator for CUMULATE. He enthusiastically agreed!
Read Don’s Bio in cumulate.art’s intro and scroll the poetry to hear his audio mastered dots and dashes. Don has become a dear friend, and I am one of his many telegraphy students!
Don Mahoney transcribing Twyla M. Hansen's poem into American Morse Code on a telegraph key from 1902
CUMULATE: an art installation in layers.... poetry and a palette (part two) /
Each of the nine poets, curated by Matt Mason, Nebraska’s State Poet, are represented by one of these colors!
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