Shy Boy

Authored by Thom Swiss
Published by Artist in 2002

"Shy Boy" is, like all of my born-digital work, a collaboration between myself and artists working in design, animation, and sound. For what it's worth, the boy in this piece is a version of my own son when he was in late elementary school. Like many new media poems, this one is an experiment in both how to read and how to listen. Its pacing and animated erasures are meditative and intended to be so quiet as to be nearly "under the radar."