Eduardo Kac’s Letter is a navigational poem that presents the viewer with the image of a three-dimensional spiral jetting off the center of a two-dimensional spiral. Both spirals are made exclusively of text. Thus, reading becomes a process of probing the virtual object from all possible angles. The reader is also able to fly through and around the object, thus expanding reading possibilities. In Letter a spiraling cone made of words can be interpreted as both converging to or diverging from the flat one. Together they may evoke the creation or destruction of a star. All texts are created as if they were fragments of letters written to the same person. However, in order to convey a particular emotional sphere, the author conflated the subject positions of grandmother, mother, and daughter into one addressee. It is not possible to distinguish to whom each fragment is addressed. The poem makes reference to moments of death and birth in the artist's family. Originally created as a VRML file on a Macintosh Centris 650, Letter was later converted to mp4.
Note: This is a historical work, retroactively minted as an ERC-721 token, with explicit authorization from the artist on the contract: 0x3582aefb31fdca6dd9855e2a69ed65dea8c91030