TY - ART
TI - Ask Me for the Moon
AU - John David Zuern
AB - <p>"John David Zuern's <em>Ask Me For the Moon</em> is a digital poem created in Adobe Flash using juxtaposed images, words, and sounds, to create the feeling of the labor behind the scenes at a Hawaii resort. The images and colors (black, white, and turquoise dominate) paint a picture of Waikiki that is emphasized in Zuern's notes on the piece, which observe that at the time the piece was made there was approximately one worker for every two and a half visitors to Waikiki. The text of the piece plays over the faded gray landscape of the island, while the moving pictures depict fragments of labor moving through like waves along the shore. The visual poetics serve as a poignant reminder of how much work is done at night, out of sight of the tourists who swarm the island." -- from <em>Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One</em></p>
C3 - Web
PY - 2005
LA - English
M3 - Animated, Place-Based, Poetry
UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/449/0/0/
DB - The NEXT
Y2 - 2025-03-29
ER -