Thursday, January 19, 2012

Interpreting a Poem with Line

"The line is a lifeline,
it leads you out again
in to the profane. To vegetables
and sex, and eggs
and bacon. Fodder. Wallow. Time
as generally understood.
Breakfast lunch, dinner
architecture,
all those things
that won't miss you
when you're elsewhere.
There. Feel better?"

  In today's class our assignment was to read an excerpt from a poem and as a small group draw lines that depicted what we wanted to interpret after reading the poem. Jen-a, Hunter and myself had 10 minutes to come up with something, make a solo unified drawing and then present to the class. My bacon and eggs skillet didn't cut it... So I came up with the long tapered line with a dot to go along with Hunter's heartbeat line with the wavy added to it. Jen-a had drawn hands so we also wanted to add her ideas as well.
  The heartbeat relates to the everyday life of just living and the wavy lines depict the profane and blah of life. The heavy tapered line also depicts life moving and the dot signifies being alone in the world. The small tapered lines show movement of life. The hands were another reference to lifeline. Our instructor liked the lines but I don't think we nailed it 100%.

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