“shattered glass”
Made for Comics Workbook
Another piece that feels a little bit Craghead inspired! Here we have the text right in the middle. And here we have a lot less clear text. It’s not emotionally driven, exactly, nor is it telling a story or responding to the representational details. What I’d argue it’s doing is replying to the expressionistic feeling of the panels without at all referring to what objects they represent. Or describing the emotions of some unstated POV character.
“substitution” and “increasingly complex” seem like intellectual words, words used to describe some scientific something. But as far as I can tell, they are pretty unrelated concepts. But the quick parallel lines, the angles, they feel exact and logical. The energy of the drawings could have a similar feel to the energy of having ideas rolling and thoughts feeling clear and right.
These lines of text would not work as well at the start or the end. They would feel arbitrary, and might leave the audience expecting something the page wouldn’t be able to deliver. They aren’t a starting or ending point, nor do they really separate the page into different beats. They don’t recontextualize anything. They essentially function the same as the images, as exercises in expressing an atmosphere and feeling.