mary oliver's

When I Am
Among the Trees

1. Interaction

1.1. Drift 1.2. Clarify 1.3. Select 1.4. Follow

2. Temporal

2.1. Scroll 2.2. Stanza 2.3. Word 2.4. Writing

3. Perspective

3.1. Tilt 3.2. Sun 3.3. Scatter 3.4. Fisheye

4. Composition

4.1. Tree 4.2. Float 4.3. Magazine 4.4. Grid

5. Scale

5.1. Random 5.2. Fade 5.3. Breathe 5.4. Proportion

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This project is a typographic exploration of 'When I Am Among the Trees' by Mary Oliver for Richard The's Data as Material class in the Parsons School of Design. Twenty variations of the same poem are presented across twenty separate webpages, each changing the poem's form through shifts in composition, typography, hierarchy, scale, and pacing while keeping the text entirely intact.

The poem was chosen for its quiet, meditative rhythm and its preoccupation with presence and slowness. Some variations honor that stillness, others deliberately work against it, asking what happens when a gentle poem is made chaotic, rushed, or fragmented.

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