I decode the idea of the song, (although I don't remember the lyrics word for word). The first image looks like a daguerreotype? What is the thought behind the orangish yellow images (7-8?) Also some of the images look like photographs, while others look like paintings. Am I right?
The red/orange color is supposed to represent gold (i guess), because that's initially why they went over there. Found it and pretty much destroyed a civilization.
I tried to find images I could use, and make them look similar in style, which was not successful in all.
Your work is always so crisp and stunning. I think all the varied shades and tone cause a bit of a disconnect between the images. However there similar content helped tied them together. I felt like the story got a little lost because I though all the later images where just tribal but then I notice the man in the armor with the gun, I feel like he should have stood out more to help clarify the story or even include a battle scene where the two world clash/ collide.
Did you draw/paint/photograph any of these images yourself? Also, how is it bound? I love the contrast of your backgrounds to your images and the illuminated effect it gives. You did a similar thing in this book as your last one by choosing an icon to represent the different sections of the song. I think the continuity of the icons in your last book was more successful possibly because of the way you used a continuous line. I wonder what your book would have look like if you just focused on one section of the song?
One thing for sure is that you are good at creating a sense of drama!
Here are some things that I am seeing: •inconsistent imagery source •starting point, travel, end point vague
I'm assuming this is all found imagery? Perhaps the found imagery has too much of their own content (why were these image created for what purpose?) for it to be influenced by your color study, black background and other consistencies that you tried to create.
Also, most of the imagery is object and/or singular person in a tight crop, which doesn't allow for the context of what is going on to show up. These imagery have more of a "travel here to enjoy the exotic people" feeling, which I am sure was not your intention.
Context building for imagery can be a powerful exercise in inclusion of information and exclusion of information.
I'll work on it. I feel I need to show too much and have difficulty editing which images to use. I might draw my own for the next book, but it will take a very long time. My intention is to stay with the dark and yellowish / orange colors.
Your images are stunning. I love how you used the same black background and similar colors in the pictures to tie each page together.
I would have loved to see an area of conflict between the Spanish and the Natives. The only implication that I saw was the blood on the first page, but it gave me the impression that Cortez was the only one killed.
I decode the idea of the song, (although I don't remember the lyrics word for word). The first image looks like a daguerreotype? What is the thought behind the orangish yellow images (7-8?) Also some of the images look like photographs, while others look like paintings. Am I right?
ReplyDeleteThe red/orange color is supposed to represent gold (i guess), because that's initially why they went over there. Found it and pretty much destroyed a civilization.
ReplyDeleteI tried to find images I could use, and make them look similar in style, which was not successful in all.
Your work is always so crisp and stunning. I think all the varied shades and tone cause a bit of a disconnect between the images. However there similar content helped tied them together. I felt like the story got a little lost because I though all the later images where just tribal but then I notice the man in the armor with the gun, I feel like he should have stood out more to help clarify the story or even include a battle scene where the two world clash/ collide.
ReplyDeleteDid you draw/paint/photograph any of these images yourself? Also, how is it bound? I love the contrast of your backgrounds to your images and the illuminated effect it gives. You did a similar thing in this book as your last one by choosing an icon to represent the different sections of the song. I think the continuity of the icons in your last book was more successful possibly because of the way you used a continuous line. I wonder what your book would have look like if you just focused on one section of the song?
ReplyDeleteHello Corine,
ReplyDeleteOne thing for sure is that you are good at creating a sense of drama!
Here are some things that I am seeing:
•inconsistent imagery source
•starting point, travel, end point vague
I'm assuming this is all found imagery? Perhaps the found imagery has too much of their own content (why were these image created for what purpose?) for it to be influenced by your color study, black background and other consistencies that you tried to create.
Also, most of the imagery is object and/or singular person in a tight crop, which doesn't allow for the context of what is going on to show up. These imagery have more of a "travel here to enjoy the exotic people" feeling, which I am sure was not your intention.
Context building for imagery can be a powerful exercise in inclusion of information and exclusion of information.
I'll work on it. I feel I need to show too much and have difficulty editing which images to use. I might draw my own for the next book, but it will take a very long time. My intention is to stay with the dark and yellowish / orange colors.
DeleteYour images are stunning. I love how you used the same black background and similar colors in the pictures to tie each page together.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to see an area of conflict between the Spanish and the Natives. The only implication that I saw was the blood on the first page, but it gave me the impression that Cortez was the only one killed.