Fuuuturist Pattern Poetry

The picture you see below is the book cover designed by gray318 for The Mayor's Tongue, a novel written by Nathaniel Rich. 

“‘The Mayor’s Tongue’ begins when two guys who work for a moving company in New York form an unlikely friendship...Alvaro speaks only Cibaeño, “virtually incomprehensible to natives of the other Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean”; Eugene speaks English and Italian. The friends are unable to communicate, and yet they converse feelingly, or at least they think they do. Alvaro is writing a novel that he asks Eugene to translate, and Eugene believes that he is able to capture the essence of the story, even without knowing the language.” 

—Sophie Gee, author of the New York Times' Sunday Book Review for The Mayor's Tongue. 

I really enjoyed following the words across the cover; I think it goes well with the subject of communication that appears in The Mayor's Tongue. When I first saw the cover design, its animated quality reminded me of Filippo Marinetti's pattern poetry in his Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist Words-in-Freedom) of 1919:

On a side note, this is also a great book whose cover text takes the shape of a hand: 

It's Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

Futurism and Photography

Artists in the Futurist movement were fascinated by the expression of concepts such as continuous movement, simultaneity, speed and energy. They also attempted to express motion, energy, and cinematic sequence in their work, such as in Giacomo Balla's painting titled Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash (Meggs 255).

Giacomo Balla's Dynamism of a Dog
on a Leash was painted in 1912.

The year 1912 is also around the same time Francis Bruguiere began experimenting with multiple exposures in photography. Advances in photography provided another way for artists to capture or represent dynamic movement in space through a two-dimensional medium.

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