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Thumbnails 1Thumbnails 2The sequence of my book involves a pattern. It is organized by the format: photo, photo, collage, poem. The two photos are followed by a collage comprised of those photos to illustrate the process of abstraction, how collages are made of complete media that is taken apart and then reconstructed into something new. The collages are integrated with drawings of different characters. These characters are the topics of the poems. These characters are all people that you typically find in a city, such as a foreigner who sees the city as both chaos and opportunity for his family, a homeless person, etc. All these poems tell of how each character is interacting with the city. The book opens with the first character, a young woman who is from a small town and is exploring the city for the first time and is mesmerized. Her poem is the first and the only one told in first-person. Throughout the book, all the other characters are being introduced in third-person. This is because the book is slightly told from the young woman’s point of view, as she is observing all that is going on around her. She comes back in the last two pages, which comprise one big drawing depicting a scene in the city that includes all the previously introduced characters. This is to convey the idea that everyone has a story and that all of our stories work together.

 

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