Elisabeth sat with this question for some time, away from the city, vehemently not traveling for five months. The conclusion she came to was: An artist’s job is to never be satisfied.

But she didn’t love that answer. Because if you’re never satisfied, you’re always hungry. If you’re always hungry, you’re never full. If you’re never full, it’s a challenge to be grateful. And she took issue with that because gratitude is important to her.

And so the inquiry continued and evolved, inviting other questions of varying depths. From a particular set of these questions, the poem you see here erupted. Three of those questions which help give context to the work are:

What am I?
What are you?
What do we always have?

Now, the poem is just one word.

enough

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Made through ritual by Elisabeth Sweet on March 15, 2025 | 108 repetitions of the word “enough” handwritten on a digital canvas and made visible in their place at the end of the ritual

The performance of the work is a chant meditation of the poem with the accompaniment of a shruti box. Elisabeth Sweet premiered the work in a performance at Ladbroke Hall in London on April 23, 2025 as part of the theVERSEverse poetry symposium, re:VERSE, co-hosted by theVERSEverse & The Tezos Foundation, held in partnership with The Collectors Club, Muse Frame, Digital Art Week, and The Disruptive Gallery.

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Kate Dozier (KHD) is the author of Watering Can, co-author of Hot Pink Moon, haiku editor of ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, and a Series Editor at Rattle Magazine.

“Howling” is the culmination of KHD: var(listen). throughout October 2024, KHD explored different modes of listening–both in person and online through a series of social media polls. the cryptopoetry community voted on different elements of an original poem that would become “Howling.”

one of the elements voted on was the form of this poem, a braided haibun. the haibun form dates back centuries and this particular type of experimental haibun incorporates a three-line, non-syllabic haiku that is interwoven with the prose poem. the end of “Howling” features a reveal of the braided haiku. the narration and cinematography were crafted by the poet.

24 Stocks Poem (2024) explores the intersection of natural growth and human-imposed order. The vertical lines evoke the imagery of crops or stocks in a field, symbolizing both the organic process of growth and the structured rhythm of poetry. The horizontal band of light across the middle symbolizes a horizon line. Each line represents a unique element within the overall composition, highlighting the tension between uniformity and individuality. This piece invites reflection on the balance between nature’s inherent patterns and the structures we create, whether in agriculture or in the construction of a poem.

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Laura Kerr is a Canadian Artist + Visual Poet. She is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth Il Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions in Art.

PIQUE-NIQUE POÈME, Surface Tension, and 24 Stocks Poem are minted and release on objkt on the occasion of Laura Kerr: var(verse), August 2024. var(verse) is an evolving collection of curated poetry made by poets writing & creating today. Through the lenses of nature, technology, and place, Kerr explored three kinds of environments: global, local, and otherworld. read the experimental conversation between Laura Ker and Elisabeth Sweet here.

Surface Tension (2024) explores the complex relationship between the beauty of a garden and the unsettling realities that lie beneath. The vibrant, electric colours represent flowers emerging in a garden, only to be disrupted by the dark, chaotic forces hidden below the surface. The work symbolizes the moment of disillusionment when the idealized growth of a garden is marred by the harsh truths lurking just beneath the soil, challenging the viewer to consider the fragile balance between nature’s beauty and the unsettling forces that often remain unseen.

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Laura Kerr is a Canadian Artist + Visual Poet. She is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth Il Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions in Art.

PIQUE-NIQUE POÈME, Surface Tension, and 24 Stocks Poem are minted and release on objkt on the occasion of Laura Kerr: var(verse), August 2024. var(verse) is an evolving collection of curated poetry made by poets writing & creating today. Through the lenses of nature, technology, and place, Kerr explored three kinds of environments: global, local, and otherworld. read the experimental conversation between Laura Ker and Elisabeth Sweet here.

PIQUE-NIQUE POÈME (2024) blurs the line between visual art and poetry, offering a layered experience where the textures and tones reflect the interplay of thoughts, emotions, and the natural world. This piece invites the viewer to engage with each section as if reading a stanza in a poem, evoking the ephemeral nature of picnics—moments where the external environment and internal reflections converge. Through this work, Kerr explores the delicate balance between fleeting experiences and the lasting memories they create.

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Laura Kerr is a Canadian Artist + Visual Poet. She is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth Il Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions in Art.

PIQUE-NIQUE POÈME, Surface Tension, and 24 Stocks Poem are minted and release on objkt on the occasion of Laura Kerr: var(verse), August 2024. var(verse) is an evolving collection of curated poetry made by poets writing & creating today. Through the lenses of nature, technology, and place, Kerr explored three kinds of environments: global, local, and otherworld. read the experimental conversation between Laura Ker and Elisabeth Sweet here.

The work is a composition created using Motion video software. The visualization is composed of geometries and effects native to the program. Among the featured elements is a three-dimensional representation of the head of the artist Marcos de la Fuente, generated through a photogrammetry process.

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By Marcos de la Fuente with POETRY+AI=ART

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New York-based poet and performer Marcos de la Fuente is the head of POETRY+AI=ART, a collective investigating the relationship between poetry and new technologies, and how the world of art is going to Metaverse, Blockchain, and VR.

AI engineer Ismael Faro, code programmer Mariel Martinez, and visual artist Vanesa Álvarez are the other collective members, that seek to create new aesthetics and artistic hybrids in the future paradigms of digital art.

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Curated by theVERSEverse and exhibited at RIBELA Love Nature festival, 26th and 27th of July 2024, Sarria, Galicia, Spain.

Minted on objkt.com, 10 editions at 15xtz each

The work is a composition created using Motion video software. The visualization is composed of geometries and effects native to the program.

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By Marcos de la Fuente with POETRY+AI=ART

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New York-based poet and performer Marcos de la Fuente is the head of POETRY+AI=ART, a collective investigating the relationship between poetry and new technologies, and how the world of art is going to Metaverse, Blockchain, and VR.

AI engineer Ismael Faro, code programmer Mariel Martinez, and visual artist Vanesa Álvarez are the other collective members, that seek to create new aesthetics and artistic hybrids in the future paradigms of digital art.

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Curated by theVERSEverse and exhibited at RIBELA Love Nature festival, 26th and 27th of July 2024, Sarria, Galicia, Spain.

Minted on objkt.com, 10 editions at 15xtz each

CHOOSE BEAUTY

Life itself is an oath,

It is the beauty we chose,

Turning hands clenched by the coast.

Falling curtains are what we love the most,

Ideas hang in the balance of what we are and what we know,

Within a persistent echo,

Digging in our past we find heroes,

With rings around their bones.

I acknowledge we’re only here for a moment.

Other’s wish for me to steer my mast in their direction,

Hoping to see in my eyes; their own reflection.

I know how you felt, when you found a voice to use language as a vessel,

To create the world around you in your image.

How many others wish to swim in your river and move your pen to their wishes?

To see their own ideas more beautifully expressed and enacted?

With all their failings redacted.

Where art hangs on the pillars of invention,

Where the wall, the floor, the earth,

To the void in our chests that see ourselves in unrest,

Glory waits for tomorrow, where fate is frozen.

Today kiss my face and tell my broken ears of a choice;

Choose love,

Choose rich,

Choose bliss,

Choose to dream,

Choose to kiss,

Choose beauty.

Cinematic Poetry, written, produced and performed by Laurence Fuller

AI Visuals and Music created by Laurence Fuller

Soho Collection has been Curated by;

The VerseVerse ‘After Ginsberg’,

CryptGallery at Dream Hotel in Manhattan,

Lume Studios in Soho,

Nolcha Shows in NYC,

‘First Drop’ exhibition by NueroNexus,

Featured Drop on Foundation

‘To find the Western path,

Right thro’ the Gates of Wrath,

I urge my way;’

“Comparing those gates to the gates of Manhattan, walking through its sun drenched streets ~ in the Spring which May at any point turn to grey. At times Ginsberg spoke of a writhing hell in Manhattan as much as cascading angels. It was for him the devil’s parlour. I saw that parlour too and sat on its couch, its smoke filled rooms of a culture on the tides of change.

“Ginsberg was at a vital part of that tide in his time. Where structures of tradition, perhaps the best of tradition was overhauled by the radicalisation of the changing times. Poetry was protest, love was protest, humanity was protest. 

“Soho came at a time when for me I felt lost wandering New York without direction ~ but for where the street guided me and the promise of digital art I thought if romance fell from the sky, it must land on the streets of Soho and those pavements where Ginsberg tread, outside the theatre down Broadway. Below were the pigeons perched on bronze sculptures that changed in the sunlight throughout the day. 

“I wondered into bars throughout Manhattan with my poetry book in hand and visits to the Chelsea Hotel ~ accompanied at times by the curator Haiver as we discussed the state of digital art, whiskeys in hand.

“At the time I was releasing the Fable exhibition with SuperRare ~ I felt as if a transformation was occurring, and once it did the world world around had changed. I had changed, things would never be the same, and poetics of my life. I saw the city and its people in a chorus of poetry unlike any other. The buildings touched the skyline and Ginsberg’s ghost whispered to me of a letter I had not sent.

Below is that letter.

SOHO

Burlesque where I went that day,

Through the smoke and pink,

Red and black lingerie,

It’s left and ran away,

To the dance floor, to dance all day,

I write the ending on each page,

Write in hopeless decay,

She arrived and went away,

It’s unlike everything on display,

Staring at the flower of the faded stained and hopeless hour,

Redress the red dress,

Garters stretched across soft skin,

A potent pink flesh,

A single sweet intoxicating voice trembles in the seductive silence,

Like a hummingbird’s tweet in a volcanoes’ chaos.

Bizarre disturbance like a flaming cross,

Into the wretched gardens where we lost,

Umbrella’s shade hides the despair,

Hides the raincoat of violence,

Secret rooms where they exist,

Find you in the parlour of the rubrics cube boudoir,

Pipes and libraries,

Serpents and time burning,

Spurned to the last this club’s hurting my eyes,

Dusted the cupboards well enough surely,

Desire, lined up by a house of lies.

It seems so sweet,

Though tinged with the devil’s hashish,

I will pull you under,

Where the merchants peddle their feet,

Above the devil’s conceit.

Stuck in the halls,

The blank pages,

Rusted frames on the walls,

My own note could be the mark of the sages,

Enough of the pigs trough through the pages,

I know what I’ve done

Capital down the sink,

Capital on the run,

Circles on the pages,

Ashes in my drink,

Cigarettes in the sink,

Painters friends and myrtle,

Worried so they think,

I climbed the walls of the museum,

And visit the visions,

Pure splash of paint,

Pure chains of fate,

Paint the relish of subconscious tastes,

Odalisque why was there dark patches,

Wondering alone with a notepad and pen,

Carrying these lonesome bags,

Where is happiness in the bricks and stains,

I’m never scared,

Never hoping,

Doesn’t care,

Silence is broken,

As I walk down Mayfair,

Paintings stacked from the floor,

Much of the time, I’m at their door knocking for hours,

Lost in limbo,

Cello struck a chord,

It’s bow damp in the twilight,

It’s player dripping from rain,

Suits soaked and puddles in the floor boards,

Have I become such an arbiter of degradation,

Sectioned off by the yellow lines at the train station,

Never met her shadows in the park,

Because it was too dark already,

Madeline maiden, of the darkest arts,

Stumbled at the start.

Burnt perfume thick with lavender oil,

The pastiche black, colors of a geisha’s umbrella,

I loved her, in my own sick way,

I wanted her, still perhaps to this day,

It’s easy to take shots at a man in love, for we love in secret

The mirrors always in front of our eyes,

Guilty by suspicion and always suspect in disguise,

But still I smile,

Maybe it’ll be good enough this time,

I feel like I’ve done my best,

I left my stool at the burlesque,

An aging ticket fell from my pocket,

We can put it all to rest,

Holy and entropic,

Close to my chest.

~ Laurence Fuller, 2024

Cinematic Poetry, written, produced and performed by Laurence Fuller 

AI Visuals and Music created by Laurence Fuller 

In 2024 Soho Collection has been Curated by; 

theVERSEverse ‘After Ginsberg Community Tribute’, 

CryptGallery at Dream Hotel in Manhattan, 

Lume Studios in Soho, 

Nolcha Shows in NYC, 

‘First Drop’ exhibition by NueroNexus, Featured Drop on Foundation,

‘Art Beat’ NFC Lisbon

Developed in conjunction with The Fahey/Klein Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition “Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg,” in partnership with the Allen Ginsberg Estate, theVERSEverse member Ross Goodwin, UNIT London, and the support of the Tezos Foundation.

Available to collect via UNIT London.

SHARED REFLECTIONS: A SNAPSHOT

Who can capture
the fleeting essence
of such a moment,
fragments of the infinite? 
Glasses reflecting
the enigma of India,
a cigarette burning slowly
as our lives together.
Peter, buttoned and brooding,
a mirror to my own curiosity.
Who can forget 
two souls
adrift in time, space,
the endless pursuit 
of the poetic?
Camera,
faithful companion – 
hold our hands!

– theVERSEverse after Allen Ginsberg, “Calcutta Self-Portrait with Peter Orlovsky, 1962”