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February 26, 2021

inspiration

i recently went to the MOMA and was inspired by the shape of Judith Lauand’s Concreto 61

there is something about the simplicity and the shape that seemed conducive to text, and i wanted to utilize the same format to create my own poetry.

process

first was getting the rotation of the letters correct. since i was doing this dynamically with python rather than with illustrator or a graphical interface, it was challenging to get the rotations working.

i also tried rotating the letters but did not like the effect since it made the text unreadable

i was having issues trying to get four quadrants of this rotation working as well, but i think the output was beautiful regardless.

these experiments did have some beautiful outputs that i might want to explore in terms of using ascii art with my python generated concrete poetry.

final

resources

code

a blog by sam heckle class of itp 2022. doing shit. twitter.