generative visual poem

Insulae Incognita

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An archipelago written line by line from scripts once carried across the precolonial waters around Manila — Baybayin, Hanzi, Jawi, Kana, Devanagari, and their Unicode descendants. Language is the land and sea: a terrain that mutates as words translate into one another, never the same twice. A counter-map to terra nullius — islands that refuse to be fully known.

木 → ᜉᜓᜈᜓ · 林 → ᜄᜓᜊᜆ᜔

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