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The three images that I chose for this blog post are all of alcohol bottles. This is because my poem for my broadside is “titled” alcohol and tells the sad story of an alcoholic who lost it all. Initially when looking for images, most of them were modern real images of bottles that you would see in a grocery store. This didn’t fit the context of my poem because in the poem, the setting is more dark, ragged, in the past and takes place on a farm. This is why I want the medium of my image to be hand drawn, encompass rough hand drawn lines that are black and white. This gives the bottle an older feel that fits the poem which is dark and about death, not about clubbing and partying. In addition, using a hand drawn image gives the image a more personal, honest, genuine feel that a realistic image wouldn’t be able to give. The poem is about a man who looses his daughter, is alone and desolate and drinks his sorrows away. By using a dark, black and white picture of a bottle, it represents his personal account of his sadness and loss.  Due to the fact that it is a personal account and story, it makes sense to use an image that represents that.

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The three images I am choose are pictures of the moon. All three images are of moons but the reason I choose this was because the poem I am using is called “Luna” and is about someone is seeing a person in their life and telling a story about how they remind them of space. The poem talks a lot about night time and how the person is drowned to it. By adding the moon into the poem it gives it a more story feel to the poem and this causes narrative interplay, which gives it semantic content. This gives the photo more emotion and creates an image for the reader. The first two images are actual photographs taken by people. By adding real life photographs gives it a more realistic feel to the poem. I think adding one of the first two images could put together the poem. The third image looks as if it were drawn and I think this could pull together the poem as well and give it a more ancient feel to it. Since the poem is more of a darker poem it would be a good photo to incorporate. It doesn’t show realism which is the opposite of the first two. Since the poem wasn’t shaped into paragrapghs it gave more room for creativity with how I would put together the poem. The author wants the poem to be simple, so keeping the images simple helps leave the simplicity of the poem.

I chose these three images that indicated fire, because the poem “Ephemera” is about a fire and how someone is fighting it. I chose images that were more simple and didn’t have a background story with them. I chose this because the poem does not give details about how the fire was caused or were it was, but instead lets the reader use their imagination. I felt like these photos lets the reader keep thinking of possibilities. This is an example of semantic narrative interplay, because it allows the reader to know a little about the reading but still gets them thinking about the details.

For the smoke image I would like to do some text overlay and have the text follow the smoke throughout the page. This would be an example of typographic layers, causing a poetic look to the broadside.

The other two images I was thinking about using as a background and the text be the foreground, again as a typographic layer. I will use digital transparency to alter the opacity of the image in oder for the reader to see the text, or I will fade out the text so you can see through to the background. By changing the opacity and overall contrast allows the intensity to change.

These images tell the reader about what the poem will be about without saying too much. They build up the emotion of the poem before the reader even reads it. The dark backgrounds add to the dark emotion and feel of the poem.

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Drawn by Susan Cannarella

The images I have chosen are all game related pieces. They do not specifically relate to the game itself, which is (League of Legends), but it does pertain to the more general universal icons that are present in the gaming community. This creates the semantic narrative interplay by adding these images of technology in the gaming community to imply the setting without saying it’s on a computer. 

I have considered using one of these symbols to do thick text overlaying and create a dark positive space and emulate a rough image of the illustrations above. The positioning of these images would vary. The headphones would likely be on the side of the paper cutting some of it off as if it was sitting on the desk. Another idea is to have an outline of a key and place the poem inside as if it’s a key on a keyboard.

I want to draw the images out and have them be Illustrations because of the fact that I can control the level of detail in the image, I can put my personal perspective on the object which appeals to my aesthetic design choice and control conceptual overlay.

Also because I’m an art major and since this is a visual piece, I want to put my spin on the project as well. Sometimes its hard to choose between concrete, realistic, and objective vs. symbolic and abstracted so being able to control the level of one or the other gives more room for customizability.

These sketchy images can carry a certain emotion due to the scratchy rough sketching making the piece active and fast pace and busy. This is in hopes of showing how the gaming community is very fast pace and requires split second reactions.

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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.