Elegy

In 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially declared the extinction of 21 different species. A multimodal web poem giving voice to the departed, the text of Elegy is designed to evoke the permanence of biodiversity loss and the urgency of the issue as it continues to unfold in our world. Words and illustrations disappear in stages, leaving newly created poems, with each sparser than the last. Ultimately, the piece slips entirely and irreversibly through the reader’s fingers in a short matter of time as its ambient soundscape fades to silence.