Underdays

<p>We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family from media from co-workers from other artists. In a highly connected global world where people and entities are electronically enmeshed we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture politics art and social media Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind <i>Underdays</i>.</p><p><i>Underdays</i> is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death love/war the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones in conversation between poems or within them to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems a second voice expressed in italic hints at an opposing force under the surface or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves--his Underdays--to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.</p>