888 days ago, @vrde and I hid some poetry in the ether in a fit of computational poetics. They wrote me today about how the moon is 88% full. It’s the 8th month of the year. It’s time for Verselets to surface.

Enjoy the glimpses collected for https://t.co/Jbob4CBy7z in sips, or drink them in from top to bottom. Flick through them, or keep them forever thanks to @vrde's clever contracts.

An overall story told in looks, each a narrative in its own right. The whole, the sum and entity of its parts. This was the principle that guided my selecting, structuring and curating the collections of amulets for https://t.co/Jbob4CBy7z.

I thought about the different ways that stories get put together, picked apart and then put back together. I thought of the clothing collections I used to work with when I was working in fashion.

When I’d sit in my kitchen sifting through our data, my brain was doing its thing: looking for stories; first as a writer and foremost as a poet. My favourite stories are ones where an isolated moment is still as touching as the whole before and after strung together.

For me, computational poetics is about maintaining tension between what is brought to you, and what you bring to it. The computation defines the workable text, and we create the meaning through our artistic vision.

But amulets, by nature, rarely make perfect sense. This intrigued me because language has the ability to lose sensibility & become meaningless. The otherwise orphaned, meaningless language confetti that @vrde and I were working with can gain the ability to become comprehensible.

Q: What do Dadaist poetry and fashion have to do with my & @vrde 's new project https://t.co/Jbob4CBy7z? A: Everything. Dadaist readymade poetry emphasises power of the object. They’re amulets, after all. Verselets is a collection of computed objects based on poetic emotion.

for the next hour, send me an image or phrase and i'll write you a short poem it inspires...

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Want to know about @vrde's brutal computation behind our poetics project https://t.co/Jbob4CC5X7, you say? Say no more. 👀👇

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If you want to know more about the computational side of Verselets, check out @vrde's thread! 🧿

Take a little stroll with us through our garden of tiny verses. We’re cultivating meaning in a rich soil of linguistic data. 💜 https://t.co/UMdinsMrbV

I’m honoured that @vrde asked me to go on the quest with them. They’ve always had a really active sense of aesthetic, and to be able to collaborate on creating some new lenses through which to look at computed poetry has been a gift.

I wrote @vrde saying so, proud of what we’d done together as people who make things, but also because I could make something with one of my dearest friends.

I took a look at https://t.co/hV7hCk2eKV again the other day after coworking with @vrde and even though we’d slowed down our pace and life had intervened, they still felt so fresh and new.

The results were meditations on the flowing nature of time, our need for rest and peace, and all the little pockets of space in our psyches longing to be filled with connection.

I referenced the traditional Japanese art and culture I studied at uni and lived with during my decade in Japan. I conjured the Edward Gorey drawings that have always drawn my eye. I let myself be the hopeless romantic I will always deny being.

There was enough in the words themselves to maintain complete impression, but enough interstitial space that the observer could bring themselves into the story too. Every so often I would let the miner run and get some fresh data to pick through and place together like a puzzle.

I started imagining themes for them, grouping them together. The more I looked at the data, the more I started to see narratives come into relief: a linguistic flipbook, moments strung together by the whole.