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    Sweet Forme (for Gregory Betts)
    Bok, C (Apothecary Archive, 2020)
    In the ‘Bard Code Project,’ Gregory Betts has analysed and mapped the rhyme patterns within William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Shakespeare has built his famous sonnets through a unique pattern of rhymes in the final syllable of each line. Betts asks the question: What is Shakespeare doing in the rest of the sonnet? ‘The Bard Code Project’ maps out the full pattern of rhymes in all ten columns across all of Shakespeare's sonnets, thereby revealing a kind of ‘visual poetry,’ rich with the sonic patterns of the poems. Suddenly, for the first time, you can see the Bard Code. The project grounds itself in an ethos of open access, and Betts has encouraged others to create their own work from his — he writes: ‘And to be clear, I fully and completely support anybody using the data in my project to develop their own responses. No reservations, no copyright, no hesitation. Let the words be yours, I am done with mine.’ The richness of the project (and this invitation to make with it and from it) has already led to a series of new works that appear here for the first time.
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    The Library of Babel – Hexagonal Drawing in English
    Bok, C (Post Position, 2020)
    'Post Hoc' is an artshow put together with generous contributions from eight writers and a baker’s dozen of artists.. There is no preset theme for 'Post Hoc,' which is prompted by the inability to secure IRL galleries and museums. Artists have simply supplied digital imagery that they have considered artistic. (Several works in the show do have other manifestations.) The work in the show all originates from 2020 (during the lockdowns), and the curator has solicited a creative response from a selection of artists and critics, each of whom comments upon the aesthetics of a submission.