Dwell Poetically

Poetically, man dwells on this earth. Dwell sets out to find, restore and keep the poetry in everyday life. Choose a photo or Live Photo. Dwell reads the scene on this device — the hour, the pentad, the colours it already carries — finds a fitting line among 273 lines of classical verse and prose, each checked against its source, and sets it on one of nine objects. Photographs, with the day around them. A photograph remembers what you saw and forgets the rest — that the day was the second pentad of Qingming, that the hour was wei, that the colour you kept looking at has a name six hundred years old. Colophon · vertical text, a poem, three seals Ticket · a stub, the lightest of them Letter · mostly paper, a little picture Instant print · a white border and the line beneath it Glass · the photograph full-bleed, under a band of colour Brocade · the poem woven into a floor of coloured bricks — and it scans Heart Knot · colours from the photograph gather and knot into a heart Postcard · the photograph on one side, the line on the other, as if mailed from where you took it Vinyl · your photograph at the centre of a record, the poem pressed into its grooves On a festival day — Mid-Autumn, Qixi, the Double Ninth — the line written for that day comes first. Say who the work is for, and it chooses a line for them. It does not touch your photograph. No filters, no grain, no grading; the original in your library is left exactly as it is. It writes nothing it has not looked up: 384 traditional colour names, 273 lines checked against their sources, a Yuan-dynasty almanac of the seventy-two pentads. Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no analytics, no server. The one network request is optional city-name lookup — off by default, and it sends only a location already rounded to about 10 km. Free, and staying free: Colophon and Ticket, every colour name, every poem, export with no watermark. The other objects come in cases, each a one-time purchase. Case I unlocks Letter, Instant print, Glass and Brocade, with Live Photo export from still images. Case II unlocks Heart Knot, Postcard and Vinyl; Heart Knot and Vinyl save with their motion, as a Live Photo or a video. A work you have already made is never taken back.