Textscapes: The Florentine Codex
- Wren Jones
- Apr 1
- 1 min read
A found text poem using the subtitle from the Florentine Codex Book 11 -Earthly Things and text from the article, Art at Your Fingertips: Handcrafting Multilingual Metadata for the Images of the Florentine Codex, by Bérénice Gaillemin,Getty Research Institute
forest
garden
orchard
of the Mexican language
together
alphabetic texts
images
narratives intersect
visual testament to a cultural
transformation
2,400 scenes
pictorial statements
images’ central role
an aural visual
textscape
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April 1 prompt: engage with the Getty Museum’s online exhibit of the Florentine Codex (An Encyclopedia of 16th-Century Indigenous Mexico) as well as choosing new terminology from a musical glossary or art glossary, to write a poem.
I found the Florentine Codex facinating, it's history, and the term "textscape" so created a found poem from text (as cited above). Below are two images from Book 11 - Earthly Things, where you can see the conversation and integration of images and text from the original publishing.
