As I mentioned, two ideas from my brainstorming session about Jemma-verse Story III really stuck out to me: magical climate change and postmodern runes. Today during a class where students presented their research ideas, my laptop battery died and I was forced to write my questions for the presenters in my notebook. When I wasn't thinking up questions to ask (because I know I really appreciate people at least pretending to show interest in my presentations), I was doodling some of the postmodern runes that will appear in the MC's pet exhibition.
In the story already is a piece which looks a little like a camera. When someone stands in front of the circle, blobs of color appear on a canvas behind the piece. Magic! These other pieces I'll have to mention because they were a lot of fun to draw and ponder. One looks like a bowl of fruit, which you lick; it's perfectly sanitary! Another looks like an origami crane; it just flies around and maybe makes a noise. Another is a structure of some sort built entirely out of spheres. Another is a carved heart inside a vase; when you touch it, it may or may not zap you. My favorite two are: the reverse Jackson Pollack (it's a painting with squiggles of paint on it, but when you walk past it, the paint flies backward and spatters on you!) and the mouth, which has a lot of scary teeth. When you touch it, it bites you and you bleed - but when you step away, you're all better!
And now I must return to the story itself. I had such fun drawing these, though, that I thought I'd share them with my two loyal readers.
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Dang, the bowl, the Jackson Pollack, and mouth sound bizarre. I don't know which one of them I like most, and that says something about how cool they all are. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm loyal because you come up with madness. 8D
Sweet! It sounds like you got some inspiration from MoMA in there. It sounds like there's a lot of potential for one of these pieces to have unintentional (or maybe intentional!) sinister effects on people who view them, long past when the people leave the exhibit...
ReplyDeleteRyan - Thanks! They were a lot of fun (and distracting) to sketch.
ReplyDeleteDaniel - I think so! I wasn't thinking about that, but later it occurred to me that some of these were pretty Burton-esque. And OOOOH I like that, traumatizing people. Hmmm!!
Oh, and other MoMA stuff, definitely!
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