Mark Mushet, a photographer and video producer, recently worked with EVENT contributor Catherine Graham to create a visual poem, fireseed, based off of Mark’s videography and Catherine’s words.

Catherine Graham work has appeared in EVENT 48/3 and 51/3.

Mark previously created a visual poem for Christina Shah’s poem, Rig Veda, which was originally published in EVENT 49/3. Unlike the Rig Veda video, which was inspired by the poem, Catherine Graham’s poetry contributions were inspired by Mark’s existing footage.

Learn more about the process behind the video here.

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CATHERINE GRAHAM is an award-winning novelist and poet. The Celery Forest (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) was named a CBC Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Æther: an out-of-body lyric (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) won the Fred Kerner Book Award and was a finalist for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards and 2022 Trillium Book Award.

MARK MUSHET is a photographer, video producer and the creative director of Vancouver Review Media, an online publication featuring videos of interest to British Columbia’s arts and cultural community.