Tumult i Texas - ett undersökande arbete om bildspråk och berättande

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Thick skin in Texas - an investigation on storytelling and pictorial language. I took my starting point in a story about the cowboy Jaquin, who goes to the Tivoli, where he gets caught up in a dramatic adventure. I extracted three scenes from this story, and I experimented with whether it was possible to make the separate scenes tell their own story, in three separate drawings. Without depending on the frame story or on any kind of text. In this project I partly wanted to explore the possibilities of the drawing. What can I tell through the use of just one picture? How much story can I fit in there? But the real challenge for me in this project was to explore my own pictorial language. I have gained insight into my own method and manner. But I have also gained an understanding of what possibilities there are to tell a story through the use of just one picture. I have also come to understand the importance of being honest and conscious about what stories we choose to tell.