Christy Sheffield Sanford is an artist-writer, born in Atlanta. She has won an NEA in poetry and was the recent winner of the Unclassifiable Contest and a finalist for the Calvino Prize. Sanford holds an MA degree from Antioch University in Creative Writing and Interarts. She was the first trAce Virtual-Writer-in-Residence, and her writing and electronic literature are being archived at Washington State University. Red Mona 2.0 is now available for viewing at The Next. Sanford’s work is online at Drunken Boat and Action/Spectacle. She is the author of many books including The Cowrie Shell Piece (Baroque and Rococo Strains) published by Flockophobic Press. Her videos, housed on Vimeo, have appeared at Hole in the Head Review, Amp, Atticus Review, and The Ekphrastic Review. A new work is at Parley Lit.
https://www.christysheffieldsanford.com/about.html
https://www.christysheffieldsanford.com/videos.html
https://dtc-wsuv.org/projects/red-mona/
Artist Statement: I love creating animations that let words and images share the stage and have a conversation. The Keynote and Photoshop tools are challenging, but I try to draw emotional resonance and drama from them. This embrace of media seems imperative to formal innovation. There is repetition so what might be missed in a complex word landscape will return. And, of course, I hope the reader-viewer looks and reads over and over.