Poem Book Files

Poem Book

For my poem visualization, I picked a poem by a man named Hugh Cook. I found his poem, Blue, online and I really loved it.

Blue

by Hugh Cook

There was a sky, I remember.

There was a sea.

There was turquiose and there was lapiz lazuli

in the markets of Nepal.

There was the actual blue

of the living light of the rainbow.

I remember, writing this now,

writing with the aid of the silent gray,

the gibbering gray soup with serves as my eyesight now.

I got a lot of emotions and a lot of imagery from this poem as soon as I read it, which it why I wanted to do my project on it. First, I created the imagery. I used watercolor strokes on Illustrator to create the texture. The meaning in the poem that I understood was a man remembering how it used to be before he was blind, and I felt a gentle progression from blues to grays. So I used that imagery in my artwork - not only did I make the panels go from blues to grays/purples, I tried to add less and less texture as I went along, adding to the idea that he is even going more and more blind as he writes the poem. I searched for braille typefaces on the internet, but none of them suited me, so I created the alphabet with circles in Illustrator and then created the words when I needed them. After they were printed and mounted, I used paint to create a raised texture on the braille so that you could actually touch it.

Overall, I am very happy with how this project turned out!