Volumetric Poetry: a Conceptual Architecture, Narrative Architecture, Experiential Architecture, Rosetta Stone

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Volumetric poetry is a new conceptual art form combining architecture, art, and psychology that reflects the aspirations, dreams, and promise of its culture by translating an idea/thought/emotion/state of mind/state of being into 3D experiential spaces where the space itself is the artistic medium expressing the themes of empathy, peace, dreams, and love.

The following is an example of volumetric poetry:

"Deep Peaceful Thoughts About You, My Love"

A Rosetta Stone of 5 explanations from literal (word and emotive vocalization) to abstract (volume) is provided to make the explanation as inclusive as possible for general and more specific audiences.

1. Literal Explanation:

Deep Peaceful Thoughts About You, My Love

2. Translation from literal to emotive vocalization:

Deep: extra e

Peaceful: emphasis on ful

Thoughts: extra ou

About: ellipsis

You: ellipsis

My: emphasis on y

Love: ellipsis

3. Translation from emotive vocalization to movement as a staircase:

Psychology, emotion, behavior, poetics, experiential architecture:

Deep: inward downward to upward movement

Peaceful: upward circular movement

Thoughts: increasing downward circular movement

About: outward circular movement

You: outward half circular movement

My: inward downward to upward movement

Love: outward circular movement

4. Translation from movement to space

as the size of the space around the stairs:

Architecture, space, syntax, narrative architecture:

Deep: a contracting point along an axis

Peaceful: an expanded point

Thoughts: a series of expanding points along an axis

About: a point expanded to a plane

You: half an expanded point along an axis

My: a static point extruded from a truncated contracting point

Love: an expanded point along an axis

5. Translation from the space around the stairs to form an implied volume of stepped planes:

Art, form, semantics, conceptual architecture:

Deep: pyramidal volume of square planes

Peaceful: spherical volume of circular planes

Thoughts: a series of conical volumes of circular planes

About: cylindrical plane

You: half cylindrical volume of half circular planes

My: a rectangular volume of square planes extruded from a truncated pyramidal volume of square planes

Love: cylindrical volume of circular planes

The connected staircases through the stepped plane volumes form a narrative dance of the volumetric poem Deep Peaceful Thoughts About You, My Love.

The dance is composed of two movements to express the poetic effect of the comma. The first movement is Deep Peaceful Thoughts About You and the second movement is My Love.

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