@arjantupan

Twenty five exclusive inks, hidden behind numbered doors. That's the promise of Inkvent, the advent calendar of ink maker Diamine. The colours are created specifically for the calendar, each year a different set. Every day I let myself be inspired by the name and colour of the ink to write a poem. For projects like this, I prefer to use poetic forms that bring a certain structure: a syllable count. It starts with the haiku, where I mainly focus on the interpretation of a short poem consisting of three lines with 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. The other forms I used are forms I created myself, inspired by the haiku: the tritriplicata with 3, 6, 9, 6 and 3 syllables per line, and the highku with 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 7 syllables per line. There is an odd quintet in the collection as well, a poem of 5 lines, in this interpretation consisting of 2, 4, 6, 8 and 2 syllables per line. And maybe an epigram. These poetic forms give a framework that is easy to work with when creating poems daily, inspired by a prompt provided by an external force. What also helps, is that I wanted to create small vignettes with them, by writing the poem on a piece of paper and making a sketch next to it as well, all of course with the ink of the day. Forms like the ones I used also yield generally short poems, which are easier to fit on a small piece of paper. I hope you enjoyed the project as much as I did. The poems are minted as NFTs using @minimint-app and you can collect them if you like. https://opensea.io/collection/inkvent-2025

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