Poetry activity - intertextuality - 06/10/2022

Poetry activity - intertextuality 

Daisy Jackson / 06/10/2022

In today's session, we learned about intertextuality which is where an artist references another artist within their own work.

Here are a few examples:

During discussion about intertextuality, it got me thinking about how I can include this in my own work if I choose to. Warhorse, being set in 1912, everything was extremely different to how it is now. I could choose an artwork which I can reference in my work while also relating to Warhorse, or I could completely change the setting and perhaps have Warhorse chilling on a beach or something. As long as I still deliver key aspects about the book, that is all that matters. These ideas will generate more as I progress though.

Activity:

During today's session, we were given poetry at random and had to creatively add this poem to an A3 page. This page acted as your generic book page. Matt explained depending on how you did this, there are particular areas to avoid such as the 'gutter' in the book which seperates both pages. So if I had a drawing that went ladnscape, then part of this could be ruined by the gutter.

Here is what I did today in order:

These are the thumbnails I created and ended up deciding on the last thumbnail. Since my poem concentrated on the mind, all I could think of was a human silhouette. I loved having the title 'Empty Head' in the centre as it acted as a way of describing the contents of the illustration.

After this, Matt approached me and said how I should probably think about how this would fit onto a generic book page. This could mean either having it hang off or go landscape etc. However, the problem with having it landscape is of course the gutter.

I then created a few more thumbnails to figure out what I could possibly do.

I then decided to make these adjustments:

So far, this is one of my favourite pieces I have created this semester. Molly mentioned how she loved how I cut out the silhouette to then add it back onto the page as this creates a 3D element. I also realised standing afar, that it creates an optical illusion as the cross hatching technique make it look as though it is a dark hole. This fits the whole idea of the poem which is then assisted by the black dripping downwards. This dripping comes to a sudden hault as in the poem, the poet describes that their 'idea' slips away from them. This is then further exaggerated by the art coming off the page. 

I also love my choice in colour as this fits the general mood of the poem quite well. I could have taken the approach where I dissect every part of the poem, however, I felt that it was more appropriate to illustrate the poem as a whole.