I have been revising my past work and revisiting my sketchbook from semester 1, where I found some cut outs I liked that were leftover from the collage I made of Market Street. I scanned them and played around a little with them. I liked using dark colours for the night on the last illustration I made, as well as adding texture digitally, which is why I made one in daytime and one in nighttime.
For the first one, I wanted to include the red thread that has been constant in my work to link the birds with feet to the bird with a human head, as well as showing the birds still attached to something else we can’t see. The red thread also links feeling, language, and thoughts to another identity that is not complete, but is being constructed with hope.
For the second one, I thought of the blackbirds that just won’t let me sleep a full night. Sometimes it sounds as if they are up to something other than being a bird, and it made me think of other things that might be something else at night. I haven’t been downtown in so long, so I concluded that the sea might as well be covering the whole city at night for all I know. Maybe that is what the blackbirds are trying to tell.
Maxim Zaragoza 