Hmm, I have been left thinking about a couple of things! Autobiography and the perception of it is in there. I haven’t really thought enough about that, maybe. I usually feel like I do comics about experience, and experience is experience, I guess. But the idea of whether it’s fiction or nonfiction does seem like it has some real weight in how people interpret a piece. Hmmm, and while I have given deliberate thought to the tangibility of text and text boxes, seeing your response to it feels like it gave me the inkling of an idea that will pop into full form in a week or month or year. Or right now, hmmm. Yeah, maybe just figured out Hands 12 or so. Hands 12: feeling concepts.
And just seeing how you interpreted things differently than I expected in a few cases was interesting. Like I am not sure I had thought about Hands 1 being about art! And I feel like no one has ever caught on to my intent with Hands 2 exactly, that the right and the left pages are divergent paths. It was interesting that you still liked the pieces when you came to understand them differently than I had intended. Obviously feedback helps me understand how to communicate directly in the way I want. But it also is cool to see how a piece can work under different interpretations. Structural integrity or something.
Overlooked, hm. I mean, mostly any answer would feel greedy. Someday I want to know an Okay Okay opinion perhaps. But that’s long, so!
Oh, and I had plenty of insights through writing about your work. There’s so much that you understand but you understand it instinctually, and the process of digging out that meaning teaches me so much. Like, when I was writing my last three posts about the text/image interactions I understood that the text (re)contextualized the images. But I didn’t understand quite how much, and thinking about that made me consider how to push that in different directions. Something might come from it. Maybe Hands 15 or so.
Two new ideas for my “Hands ideas” file.
Anyway this was super fun and I wish I could do this stuff more! And it helps that embedded into the idea is that while I do a thing that I find fun I get compliments at the same time. I wonder a little if it was a masturbatory effort (uhh, but two person, so, uhh) or if people got something out of it. But I’d do it again!