Not the New American Hope

Not the New American Hope

An example of textual sculpture.  The image was taken with the iPhone X camera’s “Stage Light” feature. The text was added in Photoshop.

The inspiration for the sculpture was a crossing of two streams of thought: 1) at 52, I’ve fallen well out of the hopeful sentiment “children are our future,” and 2) I realize my body is coming to an end as a site of political power and privilege.

by Curt Rode

So Much Depends Upon

So Much Depends

Made with Tinkercad and hosted on Sketchfab.  An example of text sculpture that I created quickly to give my students a frame of reference for an exercise in my Digital Creative Writing class in the fall of 2018.  Here, the opening phrase from WC Williams’s most famous poem is under attack from unseen forces.

So Much Depends
by bassthwunker
on Sketchfab

by Curt Rode

Studies in Lyric

An example of kinetic typography, built in HMTL5 with Adobe Edge Animate. I've long been a defender of the lyric mode, curious about the criticism its received and in its durability nevertheless.  Here, I play with an assumption about the mode -- that it requires a certain amount of self-exposure on the part of the poet -- and have some fun with the individual letters.

by Curt Rode