Focal Point, for the Six Directions, by larry goodell

    cover of the 7 cards that make up "Focal Point"

    (Directions: 

    1. Put this card on the outside of a door.

    2. Inside, put the 6 cards on walls, ceiling & floor.)

(North Wall)

(East Wall)

(South Wall)

(West Wall)

(Ceiling)

(Floor)

Procedure: Place these 6" by 1 1/2" cards at eye level on the appropriate 4 walls and center of the ceiling and center of the floor. Ideally it will be an empty room and the cards can stay there as in a gallery setting with the "title" on the outside of the entry door. For reading them simply go to the North wall, read, go to the East wall, read, South wall, West wall. Then stand in the middle of the room read Ceiling (Up) then kneel and read Floor (Down). Anyone wandering into the room reads at will.

I performed "Focal Point" in the late 60's & early 70's various places including Keller Hall at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I did one other 6 Directions poem-installation over a year earlier in December of '67,  and it is here: A Bag for the 6 Directions