:: occumbo contemno/blood trees reign/dreams/the sneetches graveyard ::
by ZoundsPadang, kvasir, Mishka, and chase the light
::| an.exquisite.corpse : discussion : 6 |::
Appears to me as an image of a psychological journey. Following "Drop the hate", conditions continue seemingly harsh and difficult for a time. But the process has begun, and through stage upon stage... We end up where?
Excellent transition Chase, well done!
How come I'm the first one here today?
Colin Vincent at March 5, 2006 4:37 PM
Chase, I love your panel. Those little streaky stars are otherworldly.
Shae at March 5, 2006 7:38 PM
Drop it like it's freezerburned.I still don't think I like phrases in corpses...however...I am reminded of a Melvins song the "Lovely Butterfly" and for the first time in my corpse history, I am pleased with Mishka's use in his/her (you never never know) butterfly. Congrats, you've won my worthless approval. I like how eery it is and yet Chase picks it up and makes it comforting. Says something about about death and the end of suffering.... how we all return to the light."Everybody is a star" Do what thou wilt corpsers.
billporter at March 5, 2006 9:48 PM
thelema shall be the whole of the law!
Sein und Zeit at March 6, 2006 7:13 AM
herm. this is.... interesting. I wish we would have had some better transitions in the second and third frames. ah, well.
Zounds Padang at March 6, 2006 7:55 AM
There's a really lovely sense of melancholy about this corpse. The transitions are perhaps not perfect, I don't know as that just doesn't seem to bother me too much, despite the fact that I work like mad on transitioning in my own submissions. There is a really interesting themeatic transition running through, and that kind of thing is more mysterious to me and thus more compelling.
The portrait in the first panel is very natural, and real-world. There's something grounding about it, and it creates for me a "biography effect", like the following panels are a symbolic visualization of this individual's inner geography.
So there's this sense of a relationship between the woman in the top panel and the sleeping child in the third. Things grow through time, well-symbolized by a tree, and echoed by Mishka's butterfly. The tree grows from an abstract place of falling stars, through the irridescent zone of the dreaming child. I think it's rather magical.
The third to fourth panel transition is exceptional. The repetition of the dripping blood in the falling stars is noteworthy, and the title is exceptional. I suppose the best plots in the sneetches' graveyard go to those with stars on their bellies (or vice-versa depending upon the fashion of the moment).
Cicada at March 6, 2006 12:16 PM
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