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Table
of Content:
BOOK I: innocence
BOOK II: pride
featured in
Rhizome.org ArtBase,
May 2001
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Artist's
Notes:
In
spring of 1999, I realized that Internet applications and its user-interfaces,
some of which I was contributing to, was not saving people time with
ease of use. Technology developments, with its incongruent and diverse
"look and feel" are creating more complexity for users; rather
than simplify and save users time. I, then, decided to leave the Sun
Microsystems Labs and move to Maui to dedicate my focus towards
my creative work (visual haiku). Prior
to leaving the mainland,
I took a flippant and capricious
trip across the United State in my friend IPO's Ferrari. It was then
that I visualized the three-button user-interface and its language
structure for information; my visual haiku of user-interfaces :
). Just like our language structure, we need to create a
structure
to simplify our information exchange; making information accessible
and alike as in our conversation.
In short, I postponed my journey to Maui and stayed in the Bay Area
to be a part of the Net rush. This Homecoming collection encapsulates
my adventure in the startup world of Silicon Valley. I have learned
lots from my experiences; mostly I learned a lot about myself. One of
my best experience was spending late nights in creating this body of
poems. The creation of this poems served as a balance to the madness
of doing a startup and living here in this fast-paced valley.
Visual Poetry Notes:
By producing these visual haiku almost daily, it has allowed me to take
away from my authored designed mind and allowed me to create more intuitively.
I have realized that the visual language, known as fillers for our text
based language, has its own form and structure of dialog. Eventhough,
I have not formulate a common structure and/or know if its possible.
I feel that just like the love, joy, sorrow and pain expressed in these
poems, it can only be defined within the experience.
Also,
since these poems evolved by its own natural designs,
it was more of a conversation than works of art/poetry. With whom, I
am still trying to figure out; but the TRUTH is prevalence: a body of
visual poems and my communion with life and its surroundings.
I
hope you have enjoyed them as much as I did in creating them. Please
feel free to share this collection and like all poetry should be...
“for those who needs it.”
Current: October, 2001
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