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The poem that I am considering to use for the broadside I will soon create is Animathematics by Laura A. There are many images that I could find that would be literal to what is referenced in the poem; however, that would be repetitive. For the purpose of this blog post I chose three very different images. When I read the poem I first thought that it explained how math is part of our everyday lives and math concepts are somewhat the basis of what surrounds us. Nevertheless, the poem does have some dark undertones. The first image is a plant and of course for anyone that reads the poem and is looking for a statement relating the plant, they will not find one because the plant represents the Fibonacci sequence. The second image is that of a cat. What makes this cat unique and different from the rest is that it is white with two different colored eyes. The uniqueness of this cat is mysterious like feel of the poem because it leaves the reader thinking. Also, A cat is mentioned in the poem and there is a referenced to a humans eyes which makes this picture particularly interesting. The last is the coffin for the son that the mother weeps over at the beginning of the poem. I though the ruler was a perfect touch considering it means that the carpenter must use math to make it, but also to calculate the necessary feet for it to go underground. I believe that these images would not work together. According to the reading when images are put together in a sequence they can tell a story. When they are rearranged they can portray another story because the story depends on the order of the series of events as well as the person whom is reading them. In this case, the images that I could possibly put together are the cat and the coffin. If I were ask to describe the story that I though was behind these two images standing together, I would think that it meant that being different “kills” or is a negative thing. However, that is not related to this poem.
The style that I was looking to use is gray scale with pops of color because I felt that that portrays the overall mood of the poem. However, when reading the concepts that relate to math in this poem, I think of bright colors. I feel that that is because when we learn about numbers as kids they taught to us in as big numbers with colors, blues, pinks, greens, etc. Nevertheless, it does depend on the images used because to uniqueness of a picture sometimes depends on color.