Monday, January 11, 2016

Writing about Drawing Sound

Literal Layer

The literal drawing (the black and gray charcoal) follows instruments along a timeline that snakes back and forth and from top to bottom.  The drawing starts with just the black representing the piano and soon adds the gray as the violin.  For most of the song, the gray represents the violin and the black represents the tone of the bass.  For a time, the gray corresponds to the bells, and this can be observed in the short vertical dashes.  Toward the very end, the black and gray make large sweeping vertical rises that represent the unison crescendo of the song.

Figurative Layer

The figurative drawing (the green oil bar) is divided bilaterally, horizontally.  This main division relates to the Tommy and Izzy characters through time.  Time in this layer is represented vertically with the past being highest and the future being toward the bottom of the paper.  The paper is then divided into five segments vertically, which represent different time periods: unknown history, Spanish period, contemporary, future, and unknown future.  The horizontal bands represent periods of crisis or growth.  The different line types represent different ways of dealing with the crisis, or developmental state at which the individual is when dealing with the crisis.

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