Sharon Harris is a Canadian writer, visual artist and photographer.

Avatar, her collection of poetry and visuals, explores technology, spirituality and gender issues in a wide range of forms including found poems

Found poetry

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and/or lines , or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions...

, concrete poetry

Concrete poetry

Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on....

, and ’Pataphysics

’Pataphysics

Pataphysics is a philosophy or pseudophilosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. The term was coined and the concept created by French writer Alfred Jarry , who defined 'pataphysics as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties...

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Harris is also known for her art and documentary photography

Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit...

. Two ongoing projects in the later field include the annotating and photographing of graffiti in Toronto bearing the words “I love you” and the documenting of literary events in the Toronto area. Examples of both projects can be found at her online gallery.

External links

• Harris’s gallery