Things We Are Saving to Write

I was invited to create two artworks for bitforms’ Code Chronicles exhibition, curated by Aleksandra Artamonovskaj in March 2023. 

The first, Things I Am Saving to Write, is a poem inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” in which the main character is unexpectedly and irrevocably faced with his imminent mortality. This poem, originally published in prestigious literary journal Salamander, was visualized for the exhibition via artificial intelligence.

During the length of the exhibition, I invited visitors to the exhibition to contribute things they were saving to write and to input these into a Stable Diffusion terminal set up at the gallery. Over 100 visitors left text and image responses, which I then condensed into the collaborative poem Things We Are Saving to Write, which effectively became a chronicle of Code Chronicles.