About David Whyte
I will make old work, new work, and work in the midst of progress available, combined with my accompanying photography, as well as new short videos and audio. The whole should create an intimate way for people to deepen their relationship with my work, my thoughts, and with good fortune, my continued evolution.
Poetry might be the miracle art form we practice every day of our lives whether we are aware of it or not. Not all of us grow up from infancy practicing the art forms of painting, sculpture or music, but all of us grew intimately and from our very birth learning the power of words and the magic of language, when words first met and constellated together in such astonishing ways.
Words were our horizon between self and other. A child learning the word ‘door’ for the first time is not describing something that lives only outside of themselves, but experiencing everything inside them or outside their bodies that might be opened, leant against or closed against them.