Whitman > Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet

Calamus 1
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Calamus 11
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Part of an ongoing engagement with the sexual and textual propositions of Walt Whitman, Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet is a series of forty-five unique prints produced from word clouds of digitally generated lorem ipsum (a meaningless filler text resembling Latin) based on the word counts of the forty-five poems in Whitman's “Calamus” cluster. This series was created alongside forty-five parallel word cloud prints in English intuitively “translated” from the lorem ipsum, titled Nobody Loves Pain Itself For Itself (itself a rough translation of Cicero’s phrase from which lorem ipsum originally derived: [do]lorem ipsum [quia] dolor sit amet.) The prints from the Nobody Loves Pain Itself For Itself series, as well as poems derived from the "translated" English texts, were gathered into a book alongside a reproduction of a page from Whitman's journal in which he compares his output by word count to that of the literary canon.

These works were created with the use of the websites Tagxedo and Lipsum.

Images of Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet and Nobody Loves Pain Itself For Itself, installed at the Northwestern University, Fall 2012 here.