Whitman > Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet

Calamus 1

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Calamus 2

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Calamus 3

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Calamus 4

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Calamus 5

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Calamus 6

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Calamus 7

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Calamus 8

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Calamus 9

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Calamus 10

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Calamus 11

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Calamus 12

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Calamus 13

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Calamus 14

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Calamus 15

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Calamus 16

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Calamus 17

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Calamus 18

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Calamus 19

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Calamus 20

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Calamus 21

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Calamus 22

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Calamus 23

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Calamus 24

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Calamus 25

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Calamus 26

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Calamus 27

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Calamus 28

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Calamus 29

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Calamus 30

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Calamus 31

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Calamus 32

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Calamus 33

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Calamus 34

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Calamus 35

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Calamus 36

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Calamus 37

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Calamus 38

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Calamus 39

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Calamus 40

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Calamus 41

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Calamus 42

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Calamus 43

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Calamus 44

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Calamus 45

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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.