Month November 2016

Book Project: #22 Book Reviews

As suggested in earlier posts, I have gone through the evolving work several times with peers, faculty and most recently a visiting artist (Enrique Colina).  The context of these discussions is important as it places certain limitations on the reviewers…

Book Project: #21 Title Revisited

The evolution of the book’s narrative has got to a point where I can settle on a title: 4 Generations and a Migration.  While the globalization-cultural theme remains, my preference is to leave that a little more under the covers.…

Book Project: #20 Transferring to the Page

It is now at the point where all the pieces need to come together — the images; text; pacing — to form the physical artifact.   From the outset, I have imagined the book as a series of chapters: an…

Book Project: #19 Adding Text

It’s now come time to add the textual component.  While the images themselves convey a narrative, text can be used to fill in gaps or give more context to the reader to allow them to form more questions; to be…

Book Project: #18 Elements of Pace and Rhythm

Pace is the rate at which one delivers the content; the exposition of the narrative. A book always has pace; the question is whether it is planned or not.  To make a book interesting, the pace should vary  throughout the book.…