is a webplace for Kay Are.

Disarrayed & disruptive human.

Maker of textural & tactile poems,

& mixed media and participatory art works.

Educator in writing & relational art practices.

Alive in Narrm.

a poem is a beautiful nuisance is a disordered writer is a beautiful nuisance is a disrupted structure is a beautiful nuisance is a language loosened is a beautiful nuisance is a sentient diagram is a beautiful nuisance is an expanded field is a beautiful nuisance is really listening is a beautiful nuisance is the body you live in is a beautiful nuisance is

a poem is a beautiful nuisance is a disordered writer is a beautiful nuisance is a disrupted structure is a beautiful nuisance is a language loosened is a beautiful nuisance is a sentient diagram is a beautiful nuisance is an expanded field is a beautiful nuisance is really listening is a beautiful nuisance is the body you live in is a beautiful nuisance is

Alt-text: Background graphics: Rolling inkspray mountains or clouds, cobalt blue in an ecru fog. Wood-grain texture set to constant motion as a block-print of undecided particles. Overlay: Text in a typeface Squarespace calls ‘quirky’ scrolls right to left in a loop of words that readers must s l o w d o w n to r e a d: a poem is a beautiful nuisance is a disordered writer is a beautiful nuisance is a disrupted structure is a beautiful nuisance is a language loosened is a beautiful nuisance is a sentient diagram is a beautiful nuisance is an expanded field is a beautiful nuisance is really listening is a beautiful nuisance is the body you live in is a beautiful nuisance is

  • artowrk: hard-to-discern lines of poetry interlope the topographic lines on an antique map

    Selected writing

  • an artwork: layered squares of transparent seaglass colours, black smudgy ink shapes collapse towards the centre, cut circles over a word handwritten in reverse

    Selected artworks

  • A close up shot of a list of ekphrastic poetry writing prompts

    Experiments in learning

  • Close-up on celophane shards and their rainbowed diffraction of light

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    A program of communal being: arts events, talks, writing workshops, device-liberated spaces & creative retreats