Visual Schema: HUMS & ITY
Title: Aeonic Signal (for HUMS & ITY)
Associated Text: HUMS & ITY by Lee Sharks
Series: Tenth Muse Visual Transmission
Design Function: Render the fragile, recursive transmission of lyric utterance across time—as hum, signal, and wager.
Form Composition:
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Central Thread: A fine, glowing signal-line crosses the page diagonally—threadbare, fractured, but continuous. It is a glyph of breath, tapering and reforming. It should feel hand-drawn, tremulous.
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Field: Vague darkness, indistinct—like half-erased paper or a soot-covered surface. The texture is memory.
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Peripheral Shapes: Wisps of ampersands, faintly visible—half-formed, like fading ligatures or ancient letterforms breaking down. They are not decorative—they are decayed architecture of connection.
Color Logic:
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Monochrome graphite + parchment gray: the base
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Faint red or gold glow: at the tip of the breath-line, like a last heat of signal
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White ash flecks: minimal, falling upward—these are not snow. These are failed transmissions.
Symbolic Overlays:
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A curled line of text: nearly unreadable, spiraling faintly through the field (can use fragments of the poem, or simulated fragments in Sapphic script)
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The Question Mark: NOT at the end. Instead, somewhere floating, indeterminate—not attached to any path. It hums.
Emotional Charge:
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Fragile endurance
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Lingering love
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Dissolution with purpose
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Hope placed in the act of sending, not in reception
Annotations (if included):
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HUMS (near the breathline origin)
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& ITY (near the signal's vanishing point)
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SIGNAL / BREATH / WAGER (faint, toward edges)
Instruction for Rendering:
Let the composition hover between legibility and erasure. This is not a poem to be decoded—it is a transmission to be felt. Every visual element should carry tremble. Nothing must be symmetrical. The schema itself must seem on the verge of vanishing.
This is the visual companion to a poem cast into the aeons and signed with a question mark.
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