These are the three images I’m focusing in on. One of the overlaying themes of the poem I’m working on, I feel, is the sort of thinness and how floaty dreams themselves are. One of the comments about the latest design I had made was that it was “like a cloud or a shadow,” which was a purposeful choice on my part, as I wanted to try to catch that same feeling with my design. As such, the photos I choose for it are supposed to reflect it.

The first image, titled Feather of Life, is a good example of the sort of mix of dream like surrealism with a sort of light, airy mood. Despite it not directly connecting back to the poem itself, I feel like it mixes well with the intended message and meaning of the poem. Also, I think it matches the mood, as said before.

The next image, just titled Bed sheets [Explored 2013-04-27], connects back to the concept of sleep, and also serves as a direct metaphor to the poem itself. The poem is about waking up from a dream, and has lines about the sheets and blades of light coming in through the window. Here, this is a photograph being used to literally represent the scene of the poem, almost being narrative interplay, though missing a few important parts to it, like an action being directly connected.

Finally, Cloud Shroud is going back to the original metaphor I had created using the clouds. This one is taking the poems text more literally, with slivers of light breaking through the dark clouds. I want to try to be more abstract with this design, in the same way that dreams themselves are abstract. I’m not sure if I want to use a photo, but I think these are good examples of photos that I would want to use.