As well as publishing anthologies of text and image Alec has realised a number of digital animaions.

WORDWOOD features 144 mesostic poems by children aged form six to fourteen. The animation, growing part by part, render the process of composition visible. They also reveal layered poems within poems, as if we were watching an episode of time - lapse photography.


turning toward living five circle poem animations.


Wind Blown Cloud is a shorter version of an eight hour animation of clouds selected from The Archive of Wind Blown Clouds.

two fields of wheat seeded with a poppy-poem is a poem commentary describing a Milton Keynes Gallery off-site project for which Alec and a number of collaborators grew and harvested two varieties of wheat. The digital animation describes the entire process using a combination of mesostic poems and photographs.

dance trace, an animated poem that describes the performance of two dancers.

Cantus an endless poem inspired by the falling rain and Arvo Pärt’s Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten. Commissioned by threshold.