Scattered Bones: 001
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A few months ago, I had in my mind to start a webcomic., but I wasn’t sure what form or format I wanted to use. Then today it hit me – why not combine my new found interest in iPhoneography with my past love of poetry to create a piece of sequential art in the form of a webcomic.
On my old blog, I wrote a post about American Sentences, which is a poetic form Allen Ginsberg created as an answer to the Japanese Haiku.
“American Sentences as a poetic form was Ginsberg’s effort to make American the haiku. If haiku is seventeen syllables going down in Japanese text, he would make American Sentences seventeen syllables going across, linear, like just about everything else in America.” – Paul Nelson
I think American Sentences make a brilliant form for sequential art. And photography itself is a form of visual poetry. The two combined can only be goodness. My aspiration then, is to make a thought provoking webcomic. And like all art is suppose to do, I hope you have a reaction to scattered bones – good or bad, doesn’t matter. The point is to hopefully cause people to pause for a moment to contemplate what’s going on between and betwixt the interplay of words and images. I’m quite excited about this idea because it gets me writing poetry again and it gets me out taking photos and I get to create a cool social object.
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