For my second project, I have been struggling with formulating a coherent format. What I know for sure is that I want to incorporate an original poem in the actual composition, but I am not sure how to do so, especially since I want for it to be a formal piece of artwork. Here is the poem:
Look at me. No. Do not look at me. L o o k. A t. M e. Bold and italicized, these words are. A breath between each letter, Like the hollow spaces of my weak heartbeat: Bradycardia. Drag your eyes over Every crevice, Meticulous as a weaver finch. Scar my skin – A famished fire of raw yearning – With your blistering gaze, And tell me If you notice a single trace, A footprint, A wisp of hair, A shadowed expression, Of the ghost of a girl I once was. Of a sick and lonely and tired and anxious and desperate and forlorn and restless and neurotic and dispirited and enfeebled And hopelessly forsaken Shell, hull, husk. That weak heartbeat, With the hollow spaces between the sluggish thrums, Growing stronger each day, Nourished by love and nutrients. I didn’t think so.
It is similar to my previous Head and Heart pieces in that it follows a very personal narrative of the infinitesimally intricate experiences of hurting and healing. However, I do not know how to effectively support the words with visuals; I tend to be very literal, so all of my ideas revolve around creating actual images of a heart, a shell, a footprint - all of the concrete language I used in the poem. I would to challenge myself to explore representational images, like a phoenix for resurrection (how phoenixes are born from their own ashes). I am entertaining the idea of the artwork being more of a collage. I am thinking that where the words are spaced out and say "look. at. me," I want to draw eyes using the two 'o's, thus merging the words and the visuals. For the background, I could create an outline of a phoenix with certain prominent details (like the head and feathers of the wings), its wings outspread and bottom half rising from ashes.
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