Interactive Wordmaps
Please try out these visual explorations of wordplay and ideas! They are collages I call 'wordmaps'. They combine graffiti with popup messages that create landscapes of meaning. Click a picture, then touch or hover over the words to reveal hidden insights.
Interactive Features: Hover over the words to reveal deeper philosophical commentary!
Interactive Features: Is there artifact and artifiction? Are there arty facts? Click on!
Interactive Features: Explore this map of how our basic motives and social patterns lead to horrible consequences!
Interactive Features: Discover the connections between inspiration, invention, and illumination!
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What are Wordmaps?
Wordmaps are hand-drawn graffiti diagrams, similar to colorful street art. At first glance, they may appear chaotic, but each one is an organized collage of words that share a central theme or question. Relationships, contradictions, and deeper meanings emerge. Words layer themselves across the canvas. Sometimes arrows and lines connect things or draw your eye to relationships between words.
When you click on words or hover over them, you activate the interactive elements. Commentaries emerge. The poster has an internal dialogue, and a dialog with you, the viewer. You participate in the questions beneath the questions, the thoughts within the thoughts, the conclusions you might reach, when you begin to engage with the ideas.
I intend these works to be a new kind of visual philosophy. They are a form of kinetic art, art that is alive. Rather than a still life that makes you a mere onlooker, they are interactive. They invite you to participate: look, explore, discover, and perhaps find your own path through the landscape of ideas and questions they ask.