Can we go over this again?--justifying animation

As I’ve been working on the flash animation, I’ve been trying to figure out how the animation fits with the (Tulsa) theme. First of all, we’re trying to say something about poetry and reading/writing/creating in general, such as suggestion that reading is a type of erasure (Modest). The animation on that poem, that looks as if the poem is draining away, fits with the themes of washing away, baptism, etc. The real story in Modest, OK? is the way the sound interrupts and displaces the narrative of the poem, which as it describes a nightmare itself has the syntax of a nightmare. The linear flow of the text mimics the temporal flow of that makes sound possible.

The movement in Big Box Block not only reinforces that but is less liquid and more airy, like the blowing wind that haunts that poem.

Death/Metal will work a little more like light or fire, flickering into new arrangments as the poem itself is consumed. The Dig poem, dwelling on the earth, will shudder and shift like a quake.

Although I hate it, I think I’m going for the four elements concept quite heavily….should find a way to deconstruct that expectation that since there are four, it must be a (seasonal) cycle like many other poetic quartets.

At this point, I’ve animated half of the poem.