This is what I see here!
I am creating a spaceport from diffraction curves, virtually, with code.
I am building it from not too many diffraction curves – so, it is sparse.
Coloring the lines to mimic the exact wavelength of the light diffracted – so, it is spectral.
Metaphors always get out of hand. I wanted to stick to the spaceport imagery and mental association.
Alas, when I look at it again, I see a colorful veil. A sparse and spectral curtain.
Found Poetry
I am sending out my seed phrase Sparse Spaceport Morphs Into Curtain of Dancing Oscillations into the ether of the now AI powered internet, creating Found Poetry again!
Rules for poetry: Visit one search result after the other, pick a phrase quickly. This becomes a line of the poem. Do not go back, edit, of re-arrange. Stop when the poem feels done.
I am using a private Google browser window, and I dare not to limit searches to PDF documents this time. I am hoping that a phrase as specific as this will shield me from the abysses of the generic internet blackhole platforms and give me obscure sites.
Google tells me that there are not many search results, and I should be more specific like (literal quote) also search for cake recipes instead of searching only for How to bake a cake? This is good!
Sparse Spaceport Morphs Into
Curtain of Dancing Oscillations
I will do anything to get the truth
We need to know how close we can get
A global timekeeping problem postponed by
Common Sense
the unamplified human voice
A space-borne Fourier transform
this manuscript may seem narrow in scope – and perhaps it is
Shown here are shape, structure and size of the main mirrors
There will be shielded arenas left unpressurized
We make sure you get the best results every time
‘death stars’ passing close to the Sun
yearning for change, they desired to challenge one another
Our planet is just one among billions
in the context of rapidly shifting realities
THE ROBOTS ARE HERE
abutting
abuzz
abysmal(*)
explore dance or dance-like characteristics
filled with the cloudy turquoise
zeta
zigzag
zilch (**)
reorganized in a hierarchical fashion
THE AESTHETICS OF THE TRANSITORY
sculpted
sculpting (***)
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(*) These three words are one phrase. I stumbled upon a dictionary on github. According to my rules, I haven’t removed the line break.
(**) It happended again. Another word list on github, probably the same as in the first repository.
(***) And again. Another site, seems to be the same word list. It tells me I reached the end of the internet of sorts.
The next link looked spammy or even malicious. I am stopping here! So, lets sculpt the aesthetics of the transitory!
Related blog posting – about another artwork in this series, and about my inspiration:
Sparse Spectral Spaceport: Psi Psi Star
Sparse and Spectral. The Prequel.
Page for the series of four artworks:
Throwback: Diffraction art – the beginning:
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