We rarely know how another person imagines a poem.
A few lines of text can create completely different scenes in different minds. Some people imagine darkness, others sunlight. Some imagine movement, insects, wind, cold air, deep water, or silence. Even when reading the same words, no two people picture exactly the same thing. Most of these imagined images disappear the moment we finish reading. This project explores what happens when those private interpretations are collected, visualised, and shared.
THE OLD POND
An old silent pond,
A frog jumps into the pond -
SPLASH! Silence again.
POEM BY MATSUO BASHO
Although the haiku is short, it leaves large gaps for imagination. Bashō provides very little visual information, allowing readers to construct the atmosphere, movement, environment, and emotion of the scene themselves.
this project explores the space between reading and imagining.
This platform invites users to build their own interpretation of the poem using a shared library of illustrated and animated elements, treating perception as something active, unstable, and continuously changing.