The Waste Land
Author: Saiyanthan Sriskandarajah
"The Waste Land," by T.S. Eliot, encoded into binary and displayed as a series of little black squares.
"Each of the tens of thousands of little squares in the image represents a 1 or a 0 – smaller squares are 0s, larger squares are1s; every five squares represents a character of the alphabet. Through this simple system, one of the masterworks of Western literature is both reduced and expanded, its meaning shifted as it blurs the line between symbolic/linguistic meaning and visual expression."
The Waste Land
Author: Saiyanthan Sriskandarajah
"The Waste Land," by T.S. Eliot, encoded into binary and displayed as a series of little black squares.
"Each of the tens of thousands of little squares in the image represents a 1 or a 0 – smaller squares are 0s, larger squares are1s; every five squares represents a character of the alphabet. Through this simple system, one of the masterworks of Western literature is both reduced and expanded, its meaning shifted as it blurs the line between symbolic/linguistic meaning and visual expression."