wikitype exhibition

wikitype is my personal form of poetry!
i started making these during a few of my mental downturns. and it's been an enjoyable form of self-expression.

the way i intend people to read these is two-fold:
- top to bottom left to right
- wherever your eyes take you
i mostly align things to give a diagonal sense of direction, with things leading into eachother rhizomatically
but i dont care how you read it, just that you do <3

also the poems do have meanings underneath, go find it xoxo
much love! -jc

P.S. i will write mainly about my inspirations and pages used; you shall interpret
(or read the didactic text written by my lovely friends!)

author's intent is fake. i am functionally dead, and you are fundamentally alive.
death of the author, birth of the reader

my main inspiration for making these is belgian expressionist poet Paul van Ostaijen, particularly his omnibus Bezette Stad.
so i took inspiration from typographical expressionism; applied to the digital format through image editing.
of course, i don't actually write any of the text. it's all screenshotted from wikipedia articles. it's découpé.