The winner of the unheardwords editor-for-a-month competition (which closed September 2005) was Emma Louise Felicia Hopkins.
A sample of Emma's winning entry is shown below. This saw Emma join unheardwords.com as editor for the month of November 2005:
"Upon the home page there are blocks of colour underneath lettering and the
etched appearance of 'Unheard Words' in the top left hand corner of the
screen. My eyes were drawn to the 'four-pack' of images in the centre of the
home-page. I felt led on by this four-pack and so i quickly visited these
pages, and was overwhelmed by the bodies of text running down upon arty,
'art-school' colouring.
So after the four-pack of images, i was led into a
lycra-clad feeling of colour clinging to the screen. 'Lycra-clad' is a good
metaphor for taste and it is a reminder that taste can be fused with
inspiration and expression and distract attention away from the written
word.
So is this 'four-pack' of images a metaphor for the desirable physique,
strong structure and powerful presence of the home page? Yes it can be, but
at the end of the day my foray into metaphor got me thinking about Desire.
What is the desire of new writers of colour?
The
Mission Statement does not mention the will to support the visualisation or
illustration of texts, so I think that at least an editorial could have laid
bare an attitude about image making / contributing, with the intention of
leading contributors to think carefully about how there may be a
competitiveness of coloured representative images or inspiration, versus
textual pieces within each individual contributors' work -or both.
Also I would definitely like to see a picture of the editor to grace the
presence of the home page.
As a new writer of poetry, I want to know my poems by
heart.
To want to know poems by heart could be an objective of people who use this
site, so it would be good if the site accommodated the ability to be memorized (short) poems.
Overall, it was a nice surprise
that underneath a 'four-pack' i found that it is a small world."
And here's a little more about Emma (from Grimsby, UK, born 1981):
"Both my parents are mxied race individuals; as a West African,
Lebanese and English woman, I am committed to revealing the bigger picture
of race relations and racial identity.
I started out as a graduate artist by arranging a feature article, charting my educational journey into the arts and art's ability to relate to
everyday life.
This was a first taste of managing my own PR!
Brief CV
June 2003 Grimbsy Evening Telegraph:
Artist gives her work to town as
thankyou
Sep 2005 Brown Eyes (Nicole Moore ed.) This features my first published
works of poetry
During 2005 I have contributed in the US to the Providence Initiative for
Psychogeographic studies (www.pipsworks.com) and in Serbia I have worked
amongst Flexibleart.net. In both instances, I have demonstrated an
understanding of the sensory and psycholgical impact of materials, space and
the sites of human behaviour. As a mixed media artist I have a photojournalistic approach. I don't identify with hip hop and r n b singers, so i am least likely to say:
We Belong Together Mariah Carey style!"
Thanks Emma for all your hard work and for the refreshing contribution you made to the site. You can also see Emma's guest editorial 27.Oct.05.
Emma reflects on her