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The Great Migration

The Great Migration is a poem about leaving, about the excitement of heading out into a great unknown. It's also a poem about expulsion, about diaspora, about being forced to from home, in some sense about my emigration to Canada. Yet it's also a poem about surrendering to the excitement and the compulsion, about the reluctant realization that perhaps fundamental change is needed to keep on living.

The exhibition version of The Great Migration is a diptych consisting of a 42" two-point touch surface + a 60" x 168" digital print text-image. The work was developed for the Words on an Empty Beach solo exhibition, presented as part of the Objet Indirect Object project.

The work was developed for the Words on an Empty Beach solo exhibition, presented as part of the Objet Indirect Object project.

Print: The exhibition version is a diptych including The Great Migration, ii, a 60" x 168" digital print text-image made with Mr. Softie.

The mobile version is called Migration.
You can download it for free from the App Store here.

Migration is currently at version 2.

Source Code

iOS: The Great Migration - iOS
java: The Great Migration - java

Year: 2011

Material

Text: Custom text
Font: Antique Olive Compact Regular.
Exhibition: Custom Java for Windows
App: Custom Objective-C for iOS
The Great Migration ii: 60” x 168” digital print made with Mr. Softie.