Fish: a 'hyperhaiku'
I made this back in 1995 for WebSheaf—a multimedia CD-ROM edition of Sheffield Hallam University's undergraduate creative writing magazine that I designed for my MA in Writing.
At the time, it was an experimental environment for a haiku. This particular poem came about as a result of viewing 'Magic Eye' images where initially one sees a two-dimensional pattern, but on relaxing the vision the image suddenly leaps into three dimensions.
As it's an 'abstract' haiku—an experimental form used in modern haiku writing—the idea is to evoke suspension of belief, dreaminess, fantasy. There's also all sorts of underlying nonsense to do with Zen masters and and the short memory span of fish, but that's another story.
Converted to MP4 in April 2024 from a damaged 29-year-old Flash file, so it's a bit clunky. It's not an interactive piece—just let it wash over you. It's about 80 seconds long.