Breaking the Vault: Paulo Leon ("Campbell's Soup Cans" by Andy Warhol)

2022

Nine Hamilton-based poets were invited to curate an exhibition from the permanent collection of the AGH, and to use those works to inspire original compositions. This video features poetry by Paulo Leon in response to the work:
Andy Warhol, “Campbell’s Soup Cans”, 1968
9 screenprints on paper from the Campbell’s Soup Suite
A/P
Art Gallery of Hamilton
Gift of Emmanuel Atlas, 1983
© 2021 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOCANNine Hamilton-based poets were invited to curate an exhibition from the permanent collection of the AGH, and to use those works to inspire original compositions. This video features poetry by Paulo Leon in response to the work:
Andy Warhol, “Campbell’s Soup Cans”, 1968 …

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i worked

0:11

a machine

0:12

selling

0:15

mosh pit

0:16

and cash register

0:19

cashless register

0:22

collis

0:24

calloused fingertip for guitars at war

0:27

in a job

0:29

with a 30k car

0:31

and a plaque on a wall

0:35

i worked

0:37

a machine

0:39

condensed as communism

0:42

fattening as catholicism

0:45

whites as board of directors

0:49

eyes curdled at the half-century old

0:52

clerk

0:55

training their

0:56

cardio checking for fixes

1:00

updates

1:02

improvements

1:06

i worked a machine

1:09

selling my

1:12

mosh pits and minimum wage minimum

1:15

effort

1:16

inventory concerts

1:20

15-minute breaks in the shapes

1:23

of middle

1:24

fingers

1:26

time theft listening to pink floyd

1:30

freudian slipping into a fantasy

1:34

slitting the boss open like the can of

1:36

soup he really is

1:41

in return

1:44

pizza party

1:46

cracked hands

1:48

anti-force lips

2:14

you

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