Poem Book Concept

The poem I based my book on is entitled “Soutod” by Till Lindemann. It is a lovely German piece seemingly about a man hunting deer in the pine forest. However, knowing the twist in former works of the artist, one can deduct that the writing is clearly about the hunting and molesting of a person. With this in mind, the concept of my poem book is the illustration of that story. I found a deer on the front to be a fitting cover because this is what one observes upon first viewing the poem. As the reader digs deeper into the context of the writing, they begin to whiteness that the prey is not an animal. This is why as the viewer of my piece goes deeper into the book and folds back the pages they begin to view the people being referred to as deer. Finally, after all the pages are removed one bares witness to the figure of a woman where the deer once was, thus completing the parallel.
As for the construction of the images I composited drawings with digital photos of a pine forest as depicted in the poem. I felt it important to keep the forest background up until the last panel of the book to keep more of the imagery of the poem. In contrast, the final page consist of an ally way background to further confirm the readers beliefs that the man in the poem was preying upon a young woman all along.
The drawings were all created as sketches on paper then brought into illustrator for coloring and manipulation through live paint/trace. After being colorized in illustrator they were given shadows and warped to root them into the backgrounds. The text was also manipulated through illustrator. It was given a new font, size color and shape that I felt attributed to the situation of the poem. From there the text was then placed into the images through photoshop and warped to also root it to the depictions. The physical book was created by cluing the images to two paper boards and cutting the top board into six panels so that the viewer can slowly uncover the image within.