"Lord's Prayer, The" (2007) is a digital poem that takes the original English version of "The Lord's Prayer" (in this case, a variation of the King James Version) and, using the same words, creates an entirely new poem. The work was created in Flash, and the viewer must navigate the page in order to see the revision of the original prayer into its new form. In addition to the text, "Lord's Prayer, The" also uses both images and sound to help in the text's transformation--they evolve as the text evolves, and all the elements are synthesized at the end of the transformation, when the new text coalesces out of the old.
"Lord's Prayer, The" is a commentary on language and how our most sacred texts are not immutable. In fact, such texts should be questioned periodically, and revisited, when necessary, for them to remain a viable part of our culture ...
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"Lord's Prayer, The" (2007) is a digital poem that takes the original English version of "The Lord's Prayer" (in this case, a variation of the King James Version) and, using the same words, creates an entirely new poem. The work was created in Flash, and the viewer must navigate the page in order to see the revision of the original prayer into its new form. In addition to the text, "Lord's Prayer, The" also uses both images and sound to help in the text's transformation--they evolve as the text evolves, and all the elements are synthesized at the end of the transformation, when the new text coalesces out of the old.
"Lord's Prayer, The" is a commentary on language and how our most sacred texts are not immutable. In fact, such texts should be questioned periodically, and revisited, when necessary, for them to remain a viable part of our culture and our lives.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2007
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday Jan 24th, 2009
- Original Url: http://www.LordsPrayerThe.com
- Permalink: http://www.LordsPrayerThe.com
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Work Credits:
- Alan Bigelow, creator
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