Illustrator
Abstraction
Abstraction
Audio:
For sound, I always wanted something with an omnichord because it has that soft, emotional tone. By accident I found an omnichord cover of “Fly Away From Here,” and it fit perfectly. In the middle, the sound grows louder, which matches the emotional buildup of the poem.
Having him voice the poem felt like a full-circle moment. The project started from something he wrote for me, so involving him in the final piece made it feel complete. It also felt like we were creating something together, which fit the whole story behind the work.
Progress:
This project began from something personal: a poem my boyfriend gave me in the early weeks of us falling in love. It talked about time, the sun and moon eclipsing, “purple dying,” and love strong enough to change everything around it. He wrote it in Madonna in a Fur Coat, a book about a man falling in love with an artist, which felt close to us and made the poem hit even harder.
When I’m in love, I naturally want to create more. I show affection through handmade things like zines, drawings, and little gifts. I get inspired by words, music, and artists who move me, so choosing this poem as the base for my abstraction project felt right.
To me, the poem is about a love so strong that someone is willing to give up anything else, even something beautiful like “purple,” if that’s what it takes to keep the person they love. It’s almost about seeing someone as your muse, the center of everything. I’m someone who likes open, loving energy, and the poem does that without hiding it, which is why it felt so meaningful to me.
Pinterestboard:
https://nl.pinterest.com/maytemeiresonne/abstraction/
Visuals:
At first I wanted to project onto a wall full of clocks, because of the poem’s theme of time, but a month later the idea didn’t feel personal enough anymore. I kept thinking about my bedroom ceiling lamp which is circular like the sun or moon, and it’s where I first read the poem. So I chose to project onto the lamp and the ceiling around it. I imagined how it would look from my bed, lying down, almost dreaming away while watching it. That hypnotic, calm feeling fit the story much better.
The visuals came from how I interpreted the poem. I started with thin, endless lines to show time. When the line “it curses you behind your back” appears, the projection spills onto the ceiling, making it feel a bit overwhelming like the emotions in the poem. Later, I made hand-drawn eclipses in different colours. I wanted something handmade, but I also connected each colour to a feeling: green for shame, blue for confusion, pink for longing. When the poem says “don’t be angry with time,” the visuals become distorted with darker reds and purples to show frustration.
For “it misses the sun and the moon,” I used a dramatic shape from the eclipse timelapse I made earlier in the project. I liked that it stayed in the final work because it shows how the project kept growing. When “purple” is mentioned, you see purple, but the center is already darkening. When “purple dies,” the core turns black and the colours fade. At the end, during “as long as they have you in their darkness,” the colour appears mainly on the lamp again. That part represents the person the poem is for the one light everything revolves around.