This exquisite poem is the result of a collaboration between a poet (Strickland) a videographer (Ryan) and a programmer (Lawson Jaramillo) all interconnected in a creative feedback loop as complex as the chreods which inspire the piece. Each way of viewing the work allows you to focus on the video, the linguistic text, or the behavior of the text when it is following the pattern of the chreods in the video. All the ways of reading “Slipping Glimpse” are rewarding, though I preferred to read the scrolling version to get a stronger conceptual sense for the piece and then relax into a more visual experience of the poem.
The wispy lines of poetry floating over the videos hover between readability and illegibility, as they recombine before your eyes, caught in the flows of the chreods. Pay attention to how the movement pattern changes with the water flow from one part to the next. And notice how your own eyes flow from one cluster of silky verse to the next, making choices based on convention but also on the necessary paths of language.
Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.
