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Art is the lie that tells the truth.
-- Pablo Picasso
-- Pablo Picasso
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3 comments:
Cool--I how you've retailored this. The wide closeup of his face is striking in contrast to the other panels. I think abstract is great. Let's really work together to marry the words and images, paying close attention to the abstract, ambiguous possibilities in each. For instance, an abstract image might be enhanced, twisted and transformed by surprising words, and ambiguous dialogue might be galvanized by a stark, lone image. Like after a page of something like what you have here, a lone, empty shoe on its side and "abandon hope, all ye who enter," or whatever.
This page doesn't even require text. At least from a specific-to-this-moment point of view. There could be a larger exposition happening though. How's that for abstract.
I'm all for ambiguity that's brought into focus over the course of the larger picture - not having everything spelled out for me on the way. The "abondon hope.." example is just the thing that I like to read.
Exactly. I see a sort of push-pull in terms of storytelling. The reader, for lack of a better word (observer, maybe?), has to sort of hang in there, taking in the images and absorbing the feeling, while the textual payoff may be three pages away. Or the opening panels may have apparently nothing to do with the chapter, but something in the last page, or even four chapters later, ties it all in and they realize that the page needed to be exactly where it was and how it was. Much like a long sentence ("It was, on that day that the star fell to earth, holding everyone in the spell of confusion and speculation, that Thomas and Elizabeth were married.") where the reader must hang on through the entire thing to get the point. The other stuff is relevant, but as the sentence continues, there is more and more required to store if the reader wants to collect the information. It's more work, to be sure, but I think it holds a reward for those who do it.
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