Changes Are Expected in My Distant Past

"Changes Are Expected in My Distant Past —Like Yair Garbuz Goes to the Cinema, this book is also about imitation. It also has an element from the notepads, because it is written by hand. I really like poetry, and I also think that poetry and painting get along better than prose and painting. Poetry requires cleanliness and precision, and a poem is like a painting, a composition on a page. Prose is a composition of content but not of form. In this sense, I created an ongoing dialogue between art and poetry. Early on when I wrote about art, I saw that a good quote works fantastically if paired with the right painter. So I started writing 'poem images,' and using a lot of expressions from language within the paintings. There is a mutuality for me between the two mediums. Artist’s books are to a large extent a Noah’s Ark that preserves this connection between text and a painting or a sketch. I also call it 'language shards,' quotes, lines, words that need to be preserved, a kind of salvage enterprise. Many times I get magnetized to a sentence or I confuse a pair of words in my head. There is of course a lot of appropriation in this, and an attempt to pass on culture."
-- Yair Garbuz