Dazzle Ships: Poems
By Jamie Sharpe
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By Jamie Sharpe
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Poems that challenge the depths of perception
Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer's perspective (in this case, German submarines). "Razzle dazzle" was art attempting to hide life.
Jamie Sharpe's Dazzle Ships is also concerned with art's relationship to life...
Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often containing thousands of soldiers, were done up in a confusing array of lines to perplex and distort the viewer's perspective (in this case, German submarines). "Razzle dazzle" was art attempting to hide life.
Jamie Sharpe's Dazzle Ships is also concerned with art's relationship to life...


