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While reading What It Is? By Lynda Barry, I discovered that Lynda Barry is directing the reader’s attention to the human’s ability to dismiss a thought or an image of creativity. As people we doubt ourselves and in the reading, the character … Continue reading →

Images are as important to an artist as diction to a poet or flavor to a chef.  Images are alive, perhaps not breathing but most definitely speaking.  They can take on an idea and shout it out to so many … Continue reading →

Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips define formstorming along the lines of being used as a tool to infuse a concept with creativity and originality to produce several new results. With this in mind, it seems as though Lynda Barry thought about this while … Continue reading →

On page 43 in What It Is, Lynda Barry asks the question “What is a story made of?” and the way the page was laid out along with the images she used could be seen as a form of formstorming. … Continue reading →

I would argue that do to her exploration of the way images or ideas are different things (memories, experiences, stories, etc) Lynda Barry’s book What It Is is, in itself, an example of formstorming. She explores different ideas based on images … Continue reading →