A Noiseless Patient Spider
This was a self initiated project exploring promotional material and projections for a conceptual contemporary dance performance based on the poem “A Noiseless Patient Spider” from Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass."
After interpreting the poem on my own conceptual ideas, I then found inspiration from choreographer Ushio Amagatsu and the music of The New Kyoto Music Ensemble to ground the performance. A typographic identity and visual language was then developed from those ideas. Finally, image and type design was combined for a set of posters and an animated opening title sequence for the performance.
Creative Role: Art Direction, Visual Development, Branding, Graphic Design, Animation
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By: Walt Whitman
From: Leaves of Grass
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d,
Till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
