I should have known that you'd pick up on all the 'twisted' ones...LOL This was a fun project for me: the larger format allowed more room for visual story telling, and subsequently, for more subtext of a darker bent.
The Eye came together via visual/word association: I was just flipping through books waiting for images to speak up. I flipped through a pile of books--nothing. I flipped through this vintage kid's book of poems and wanted *so* badly to use the little birds--but for what?--oh well, another nothing. I flipped thru a couple more books--still nothing. Then I flipped through a book on the eye and found that horror of an operation--ooh!! ooh!! cutting. eye. pie. birds pecking eyes. eureka!!!!
Funny thing: I had all the Eye pieces (eye, birds, king, surgery) laying out on my desk. TDH saw the surgery pic and asked me to never show it to him again because it so disturbed him!
The process for Missing Children was the same, but I had to figure out how to tell a story about the odd relationships I saw between the (male) adults and the children (strange that there were no women in these images. none. that spurred the chickenhawk thought-pattern). It seems appropriately dark to me that this was created after the visual violation, the mild horror really, of the Eye.
Re: Thank You!quiet_lightFebruary 7 2006, 15:13:06 UTC
Yep, that's me, twisted! Ha!
"The Eye" is probably my fave out of all of this and I think that it is not only the subject matter, but the flow too. It's simple and clean cut and I love it. My artsy fingers can also appreciate the time it took to cut out every one of those birds, so my hat is off to you m'dear.
"Missing Children" ... the contrast of the color with the creepy men is just great and really sets the tone for the whole piece. And then the car! How many little children have been disappeared into the backseat of that car?! Oh my.
Anyways, gotta dash, I'm late to start the day (as usual). xoxo
The Eye came together via visual/word association: I was just flipping through books waiting for images to speak up. I flipped through a pile of books--nothing. I flipped through this vintage kid's book of poems and wanted *so* badly to use the little birds--but for what?--oh well, another nothing. I flipped thru a couple more books--still nothing. Then I flipped through a book on the eye and found that horror of an operation--ooh!! ooh!! cutting. eye. pie. birds pecking eyes. eureka!!!!
Funny thing: I had all the Eye pieces (eye, birds, king, surgery) laying out on my desk. TDH saw the surgery pic and asked me to never show it to him again because it so disturbed him!
The process for Missing Children was the same, but I had to figure out how to tell a story about the odd relationships I saw between the (male) adults and the children (strange that there were no women in these images. none. that spurred the chickenhawk thought-pattern). It seems appropriately dark to me that this was created after the visual violation, the mild horror really, of the Eye.
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"The Eye" is probably my fave out of all of this and I think that it is not only the subject matter, but the flow too. It's simple and clean cut and I love it. My artsy fingers can also appreciate the time it took to cut out every one of those birds, so my hat is off to you m'dear.
"Missing Children" ... the contrast of the color with the creepy men is just great and really sets the tone for the whole piece. And then the car! How many little children have been disappeared into the backseat of that car?! Oh my.
Anyways, gotta dash, I'm late to start the day (as usual). xoxo
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