Created by: Denise, Matt, Caroline, Jorun and Traci
By: caroline
That's one hell of a bad follow up I did.
January 2, 2002 10:04 AM
By: mirla
Perhaps, Caroline, but your panel, with the final two look great - make me want to dig out my fingerpaints.
I'm giggling over Matt's solution, too. Humor on the heels (or forehead anyhow) of Denise's cryptic, paradoxical first panel.
January 2, 2002 11:00 AM
By: Gabriel
This corpse seems to fit in with our earlier discussion regarding the nature of corpsing, seamlessness, and thematic unity.
I maintain that Denise started this corpse, as many do, in the classic form: First pane == head. Matt did an interesting thing by adhering to the form (second pane == body), but without a seamless interchange. The final three panes fall back into our more 'normal' corpse pattern. As ZachsMind put it, they are "separate works of art" with common edges.
I'm guessing that Matt didn't adhere to the classic body-theme exactly on purpose, but was able to guess that Denise's piece was a face, cut off just above the nose.
I think almost everybody's goal is to create seamless pieces of art and 'guess' what the tile they're working from was trying to accomplish. This creates some interesting results, but seemingly more based on the 'edges' than the piece as a whole. I wager the reason that Caroline did not continue the body was that she couldn't begin to guess that Matt's tile contained a pair of legs. Had they arrived at a theme beforehand, she wouldn't have had to.
Interestingly, we have seen several very cohesive pieces of art... the common point for these must be some collective unconsciousness that is, generally, very hard to pin down.
I hold that the quality of the art this group can produce would be greatly improved by the introduction of agreed themes. Common colors, imagery, words, dates... anything!
January 2, 2002 11:32 AM
By: amyc
Lots of fish lately.
January 2, 2002 11:57 AM
By: Cherish
I have noticed that something seems a little fishy with a lot of these corpses as well. hee hee
I also find it cool that the dog reference popped up twice seemingly independant of each other.
January 2, 2002 07:47 PM
By: teresa
Regarding Gabriel's comments, I feel differently; a great part of the fun in the corpses for me is the very fact that there is no theme, which increases the suspense factor and quite often produces incredibly serendipitous imagery. As collaborative projects go, this one seems to me delicate and delightful because there are almost no restrictions. I doubt that I would tune in quite so eagerly if there were a set theme such as a body corpse, or even something more open-ended like "jealousy", or "impulse". Not that there wouldn't be room for these and the many other excellent ideas that have been suggested, if the project were expanded, but as long as there is only one corpus delecti, I vote to stay with this modus operandi.
January 3, 2002 06:27 AM
By: mirla
I agree with Teresa. And here are some reasons why (among many other examples). Not a pre-determined common theme among them.
January 4, 2002 05:14 PM
By: Gabriel
You picked almost all of my favorites to date. ;) Some of these do have a common theme that was achieved by each artist expressing something consisely in the last 15 pixels of their piece (scripty fonts or fish, for example).
I'm not really trying to be contrarian... I just think I might really like to address some thematically tied pieces...
January 4, 2002 06:03 PM
By: denise
keep in mind, i did my "head" back in august, shortly after the project began. at that time, i don't think ec had evolved to what it is now and people were still actually trying to form actual bodies or corpses with their pieces. in the time that's passed, i think ec has really come into it's own and i would certainly approach a panel differently now.
January 9, 2002 11:12 AM
