"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects appear unfamiliar." — Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
Can websites function as a form of visual lyric practice? Like poems, websites can be brief and carefully paced; their rhythms shaped through pauses and transitions, similar to the cadence of reading poetry. Through sound, motion and interaction, websites can become haptic and sensory, echoing the tactile and imagistic qualities of poems.
What possibilities emerge when we use web experiences to express metaphor, dissect language, and explore abstract concepts? Can we estrange the familiar so much so that we might encounter the world anew?
Web Poems is a curated selection of 12 html sketches based off of randomly generated 4-letter words. Each sketch attempts to approach its subject from an unexpected angle, using the web as a medium for experimentation, perception, and play.