who cares about pen & paper?

Personally, I loved the website. It was odd, but one of the most creative examples of writing that I have seen in a long time. Granted, I could not view all of the "compositions," but the ones I did were extremely interesting, especially the ways that the authors came up their ideas in the first place.

I believe that some people tend to have an extreme aversion to any type of composition that is not printed directly onto paper. We are surrounded by such a virtual / tech based society that it is hard not to broaden our minds to what composition is or could be. To me, a composition can just be the way someone decided to get their idea out into the world. If someone wants to break free of classic concrete poetry, make a flash animation with letters and words moving in weaving on a webpage and call it “dreamlife of letters”… who’s to stop them? Composition has become art for words. Whether it is written in calligraphy on a scroll 800 years ago or a bird’s outline created by words that flies across the screen. In my opinion, it’s not any different than the 60s movement when Andy Warhol painted a Brillo box and called it art. A writer has a right to express his or her idea in any form they want to. Composition is defined as “the act of combining parts or elements to form a whole.” I think it make a work or idea so much more interesting if it is made up of elements that are beyond just the standard pen and paper.