David Q. Hutcheson-Tipton worked with Line & Form by Walter Crane (1900) to create “Form/s from line/s.” Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, David Q. Hutcheson-Tipton writes:

After reading Walter Crane’s Line & Form, I created a word/phrase bank from it. To shape lines into a cento, I pulled entries from this bank (in their order of appearance in the source text). Perhaps a third of my consideration was meaning, two-thirds sound and rhythm. I am struck by the correlations between visual and oral/aural art this project revealed. (Or are what I perceive—or imagine—to be correlations actually accidents?)

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