cutout poems

[batiferrite]

Finally working on that collage-thing! For the past couple of days, I've been dissecting some issues of National Geographic I found really cheap and using them to make poems... (She said I was free to do whatever I want, so I guess visual poems would be fine?)

Here's my rough layout so far:
(please ignore the crappy background, I'm just trying to work out how to layout the main bits, then I'll worry about the background...)



And here's close ups of the individual poems:






I also have another series going, about robots. Kinda sad it cannot physically fit on this piece, honestly. Might post some of them, eventually...

...By the way, I have sooo many little scraps of paper on my desk right now...

Comments

[queenslayerbee]

Oh, I love how the poems pair with the images. My personal favourite is the jaguars one, btw ^^

(I'm curious about the robots now...)

[batiferrite]

Thanks! ^^

!!

[a_flyleaf]

Oh wow, you leaned way into the natural disaster angle, I love it >:O Feels very post-apocalyptic (mid-apocalyptic?!); the one of a wildfire juxtaposed with “our new world” has to be my favorite, and the photo used in the “As food dwindled” panel feels, with this context, especially harrowing.

Count me in for interested in the robots series, too :Oc

Re: !!

[batiferrite]

Yeah, I thought it was a really interesting subject with a lot of potential (and there was no shortage of articles about various natural disasters, unfortunately...). And that was such a cool statue! Before this project, I've never actually flipped through a full copy of National Geographic, but I kinda wanna subscribe now, actually -- think of all the craft projects... and the articles are well-written, too, of course.

I'm about to make another post with them. Thanks for the interest! <3

[picori]

these are so good!!!! the way you positioned the words against the backgrounds is lovely, and the poetry itself is so fun to read!

[batiferrite]

Thanks! <3

[vegetablearian]

These are cool, I really like how you laid out the running animals on the second one!

[batiferrite]

Thanks! <3