
SOLO
WORK
SOLO
WORK
LESSER OMENS
POEM FRAGMENT GENERATOR
A PROJECT THAT USES RANDOMISED PIECES OF ORIGINAL POETRY AND A WORDLIST TO BUILD TINY, OFTEN OMINOUS LITTLE FRAGMENTS. AUTOMATED POETRY WITHOUT AI - THE ORIGINAL CODE WAS WRITTEN ALMOST A DECADE AGO.
I AM FASCINATED BY THE MEANINGS THAT PEOPLE MAKE FROM THESE DECONSTRUCTED FRAGMENTS OF MY WORK, STRIPPED OF THEIR ORIGINAL CONTEXTS - WORDS THAT HELD INCREDIBLE MEANING FOR ME, SPLIT AND REARRANGED TO CREATE NEW MEANING FOR OTHERS.
2025
HARBINGER
TWINE SHORT STORY, 10K WORDS
AN ISOLATED VILLAGE IN THE 10TH CENTURY RECKONS WITH A STRANGER FROM THE WOODS AND THE THING THAT FOLLOWED HIM THERE. THE FUTURE CANNOT BE HIDDEN FROM NO MATTER WHERE YOU HIDE.
IN SOME WAYS ABOUT ISOLATION, ABOUT BEING DIFFERENT, ABOUT INEVITABLE DECLINE, AND ABOUT THE WAY THAT BORDERS AND NATIONS HAVE BUILT AND SHIFTED THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND WHAT THIS CAN THREATEN - OR ERASE ENTIRELY.
2024
DESOLATE SEA
TWINE NOVELLA, 20K WORDS
A SCIENTIFIC TEAM ABANDONED ON A DISTANT OCEAN WITH NO WAY TO RETURN HOME WATCH THE WORLD BEGIN TO CHANGE AROUND THEM. BEGAN WITH THINKING ABOUT THE OBSOLESCENCE AND MYTHICAL QUALITY OF THE DEPARTING SPACE AGE.
A STORY ABOUT DESIRE, ABOUT HOW HISTORY IS USED, ABOUT NOT KNOWING THE PEOPLE YOU KNOW, ABOUT DISTANCE, AND ABOUT HOW EVERYTHING CHANGES AND PASSES AWAY.
2019