In January 2010 I wrote my first poem. In 2020 I realized that my work was shifting in a different direction from the pieces drafted in the 10 years prior. I began editing a collection of this first decade of work. I needed to organize it and get rid of it so that my new work wouldn’t be bogged down in the past, so I could start with a truly blank page. This collection is complete, and will be released later this year (tentatively scheduled for November but it could move up or down depending on other dink going-ons).

Roughly 75% of everything I wrote in those 10 years will be collected there. Everything collected has been extensively reworked. I have left out some material that I either wish not to survive, or plan on collecting in a smaller volume (related minimal poems, currently titled “dead city;;indigo sky”).

The collection will be released in a limited run of less than 100 copies, as well as put online as a free PDF.

One of the first people to push me in my photographic works (as well as a hearty kick to my poetic output) was Dr. Aaron Richard Green, who passed away recently. This first collection of Polaroids is a Triptych created this morning while thinking of the brief intersection of our lives. 

This second collection of Polaroids is a triptych that Dr. Green chose himself from my catalogue, and intended on hanging together. 

He was a great man, and he will be missed. 

His work can be viewed below:

www.saatchiart.com/arog

I am overjoyed to share that three of my Experimental Polaroids have been featured at The Evergreen Review, accompanying some poems by the phenomenal Kathleen Hellen.

Evergreen Review was a huge part of my development as an artist, writer, and later as a publisher, so I was blown away when they approached me asking for work. I’m especially grateful to Joy Garnett, the arts editor.

To view the pieces you can follow the link below to Evergreen’s site.

​https://evergreenreview.com/read/say-his-name-say-his-name-and-other-poems/

I have collected the first 105 of my experimental Polaroids (from my initial experiments, to photographs taken just this week) on my website, viewable here. 

None of these photographs have been digitally manipulated in any way. All of the effects were produced by hand or in camera. To see examples of my digitally manipulated work you can head over to my Broken Digital Alchemy page. 

The gallery contains most of my shots, though not all. The photographs I have neglected to include were either: given away, too damaged by the manipulation process to scan safely or at all, passed along to Kaleigh Maeby for her artistic use, or lost in my move from Fort Myers to Melbourne. 

There are many more experimental Polaroids to come--I have only scanned approximately half of the shots I have on hand, and am taking more every week-- as well as more traditional shots (some of which you can find on my Instagram page). 

Over the next few weeks I will be naming each of these shots. If you're interested in contributing a name to an image, email me at biernat.kristopher@gmail.com with your suggestion and what row and column the image can be found at on this page. If your title is selected it will read "Your title (for 'your name')". 

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Shoutout Miami. You can read the short interview (which includes a number of photographs from my broken digital archive series, as well as a few from my experimental polaroid series) by following the link below. A special thanks to Emma Jacobs and the Shoutout Miami crew for reaching out.

https://shoutoutmiami.com/kristopher-biernat-writer-artist/

i have uploaded a new series of images, created in 2019, based on "Mushroom Cloud Over Nagasaki"(1945) by Lieutenant Charles Levy. the entire gallery can be viewed here. below i have included my personal print-out of Levy's photograph, as well as my first manipulation (of six) of it. while in Sanibel, Florida i made six copies of this image on cheap card stock, using a low quality printer, intending to use them for another project. however, once i retrieved the copies, i discovered that the paper had not soaked up the ink. with a paper towel i began to wipe away the excess ink, spending more time and pressure on each subsequent image, causing each to be more muddied and unrecognizable than the last. 

keep your eye out here for more work, updates, and more. you can also visit my instagram page, here. 

Throughout 2015-2017 I took hundreds of photographs while living in North Carolina. They were centered on nature and abandoned/dilapidated buildings and barns. Somewhere in mid 2017 I lost these images. In late 2018 I moved to Orlando, Florida and rediscovered the SD card containing these images.

With the help of Kaleigh Maeby I began editing these photographs. I used the free GIMP photo editing software and began to experiment with it heavily. Here is my initial edit of a photograph of a leaf dropped in a small pool of water, deep in the Carolina woods. 

Once I had this image, I decided to really push the software and see what I could do with it. This is the result I came to. 

I was very happy with how these photographs came out, and applied this method to the following photograph as well. 

I'm eager to return to this method and attempt to make more edits such as the two examples above. 

This is a photograph from my "Carolina SD" series. All of the photographs were taken in North Carolina between 2015 and 2017 in black and white. I began editing these photographs in Orlando, Florida in 2019. Some of these photos will be included in my forthcoming book "carolina per/mutations". carolina per/mutations will include poems from my permutation series facing these images. ​

This is a photograph from my "Carolina SD" series. All of the photographs were taken in North Carolina between 2015 and 2017 in black and white. I began editing these photographs in Orlando, Florida in 2019. Some of these photos will be included in my forthcoming book "carolina per/mutations". carolina per/mutations will include poems from my permutation series facing these images. 

a moth. a hypnotist. a museum on fire, of fire.

hu-
man

be-

ing
​s.

the language
that they speak
only makes
sense
under the
​water. 

These three poems are included in my forthcoming collection Bathwater. Bathwater collects most of my poetic works from when I initially started writing in 2010, until January of 2020. 

Two of these poems, "four figures in the desert by a rock, or a stone," and "shoebox found under bed," were published by the amazing George Salis and Nicole Melchionda, on their weekly online magazine The Collidescope. The Collidescope publishes new material every Sunday, so be sure to stop by and subscribe. Click here to view my work on The Collidescope. 

Also be sure to check out Salis' new novel Sea Above, Sun Below, from River Boat Books.

​-Kristopher Biernat