Poetry on the Road 2005
In 2005, we choose a very »organic« approach to visualise the poetry of the festival »Poetry on the Road«. We developed a concept, where an entire poem was considered to be a tree-like structure that would branch out over the page. Attached to these branches are the words of the poems - represented by leaves. The amount of letters in a word is represented by the number of spikes on a leaf. The word »poetry« would therefore be represented by a leaf with 5 spikes.
Certain symbols in a text control the growth of the tree. Specific letter-combinations create a new branch, others make it grow stronger. So the final tree-structure is a direct result of the letter sequence in the text. Therefore, every poem is represented by its own, distinct tree. On the final poster, all poems of all authors were transformed into a dense forest of poetry.
In order to explore these concepts, please have a look at the Poetry 05 interactive demonstrator. It is very limited in its functionality, but it gives you an idea of the overall concept.
