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The long reign of black and white textual truth has ended... Digitization gives the arts a quasi-mathematical equivalency that recalls the great Platonic dream for the unity of knowledge. Digitization both desubstantiates a work of art and subjects it to perpetual immanent metamorphosis from one sense-dimension to another. -- Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word
The images you are about to see are imaged versions of Shakespeare's sonnet #73. They are in no way an attempt to
"improve" Shakespeare; but they are transvaluations of his poem. On the www, with modestly color-coded text and embedded in images evoked by the words, do Shakespeare's ideas change their habitat, and thereby their character?