Terry Richardson x Jack Pierson _ Ready-made poems _ United States

text by JEFF RIAN photography by TERRY RICHARDSON artworks by JACK PIERSON   Of all artists, those who travel the most seem to be poets and photographers. They search for subjects through travel experiences, where places rekindle an urgency they feel as wordsmiths or picture makers. It’s not simply the newness that travel offers but the effect of difference on the sensibility. In Arthur Rimbaud’s The Drunken Boat, the poet looks to free himself from social constraints and to arrive at the unknown. He does this to cultivate his sensibility and further a vision. Terry Richardson and Jack Pierson have two common interests: both are photographers of people and lifestyles, and both are interested in American signs — real signs, signage. One of Terry’s artistic passions is to catalog isolated signs, emblems that announce stores and bars and brands and places of entertainment. He photographs them obsessively during his travels. They are quintessentially…