Delta_Ark’s work from 2005-2010 (with a few additional texts added afterwards) was deeply concerned with desire: desire in VR for avatars, other intelligences, desire in the nature world, desire reflected in the landscape, the process of desire and lack expanding one’s subjectivity, spiritual stand-ins for desire and desire as a process of transformation. These themes are rendered in open verse, free verse, tanka, haiku, narrative, video poems and a novella.
This project transforms the unseen thematic and emotional structure of a poem into a unique, interactive 3D "data sculpture."
Spine — the poem in sequence; node height = intensity arc
Node size — stanza length (words); heat (white→red) = intensity
Ring — the stanza asks a question
Diamond — the stanza contains direct speech
Left ribs (white) — "I" density per stanza
Right ribs (cyan) — "you" density per stanza
Bridge arc — "we": the two pronouns fuse
Colored strands — motifs threading the stanzas where they occur; click a legend chip to isolate one
Floating lines — each stanza's most distinctive line; lean in and it sharpens, pull back and it recedes
Colored words — the literal occurrence at each motif anchor
Gray arcs — echoes: non-adjacent stanzas sharing significant vocabulary
Transport bar — pause / play, scrub the traversal, current stanza captioned below
Hover (while paused) for stanza numbers; drag to orbit, scroll to zoom