Hinging the Parallax (1) was written on a commission by Kevin and Adrian Campbell of Portland, Oregon. Consisting of three panels hinged together, each approximately 5'X30", the project was conceived as a standing screen for the living room of their home.

The text of the central panel was culled from a journal kept in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to which were added dreams, quotes, and fragments of quotes within quotes, a trope I call "invagination." The left-hand panel is a poem, a "refiguration," made by scrambling the words of the main text using an algorithm written by the artist Luke Pellen (2). My idea was that by using the same words in a different order (not leaving as is, as some Dadists did, but re-grammatized), not only would a new text emerge, but, in an act of etymological faith, the aura of the original work would remain. The right-hand panel is a paratext, a repository of  keyed citations and some further remarks.

As the project was conceived as panels, linked with hinges, their electronic version does not consist of hyperlinks. Instead, the first sight of it is a sample of the three panels side-by-side; at which point, each panel is linked to its full-size.

This version of Hinging the Parallax was designed by Claire Dinsmore and Joel Weishaus.

(1)"A parallax is "the apparent change in the position of an object resulting from the change in the direction or position from which it is viewed." New World Dictionary of the American Language-Second College Edition. New York, 1980.
(2) http://home.soel.net.au/luke/methyl1.htm