Blue and Pink Forever
The Artful Readers Club for March
The Walking Dead Compendium One by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard { and some other folks} Charlie Adlard recently admitted in an interview that he often makes up his characters on the page. A fact which can cause any serious character designer to bow in admiration. As you can see the likeness of the graphic novel with the AMC show is very close. Tweet Review: A long, arduous display of how a few people can entertain the masses. Since I am reading and watching The Walking Dead simultaneously, I am constantly comparing the two. Fans of the television series will be pleased to know that the graphic novel is just as interesting, if not more so. The details are very different in the first 48 issues of the graphic novel, for example, Carl is a lot younger and has a playmate Sophie..whose fate in the television series is quite astonishing. There are endless differences, but the overall storyline remains consistent in both versions which is; what happens to people during a...
An upwards shot. The roof is cut out from the frame, so that the organic is placed upon high, not the man-made. A theme of four. Four cherry trees (or four branches of the tree). The man-made border in the middle cutting the photograph in half – very postmodern mingling of codes. Four windows on the ground level. The colours are referred to in the title. But why the ‘forever’? The blossoms will fade and scatter.
ReplyDeleteI think it refers to the capture of the image. This is a meta-photographical piece of work. The windows symbolise the photograph. The blossoms will have immortality in the photograph.
Interestingly, the organic growth of the trees takes place against the geometrical shape of the background (a grid) – a common theme of your work (as with the upwards gaze).
I particularly like the way the photographic frame interacts with the other frames in the image – very clever.