 
E. E. Cummings eXposure project
November 2000
One of my favourite poets is E. E. Cummings, and when fellow digital artists, Jake and George, from EndEffect said that I could do a project for their eXposure section, I decided to use him as the focus of that project. The pictures in the series evolved from my visual interpretation behind the imagery of his poetry, and partly grew from my emotional responses to the poems.
These designs display my love affair with typography. In r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r I experimented with kerning and leading to get the feeling of text springing together and forward, the way the letters do in the poem. The inverted version of the poem at left is deliberately small and widely kerned. It creates a visual block of texture to unconciously mirror the larger, more legible version to the right.
In ponder, darling, these busted statues as the meaning of the author's words become more clear so does the text. In the same veins as Andrew Marvel's To His Coy Mistress, ponder, darling, these busted statues follows the carpe diem motif. Time is ephemeral. Life is ephemeral, says the author. To emphasize this, I overlaid images from Edweard Muybridge's famous historical photographs of two women dancing. These women were already old by the time E. E. was writing his poem, and their youth, like time, was a fleeting, ephemeral thing.
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