Our collage was inspired by extracts from A red foundling strolls into this dreamby Mariella Mehr (Switzerland).
i found
my body
on red velvet
for a long time
i’d roamed
toward this mountain
toward the black
pain at
the body’s core
…
fear
(between title and
text – an empty trench
also called paragraph break)
naked
red-spiked openings
icebergs
that merge
over flowers
vanishing point
black space
devouring me
…
The collage is based on the colours, textures, and emotions that caught our eyes in this poem. The background, a mixture of dark and black hues, represents the black pain at the body’s core as well as the black space that’s devouring the main character. The faces emerging from the background aim to show one’s lost soul as it wanders several ways in the unknown, but now the main character has found themselves after a long time. Although, they can also be looked at as the fear that still haunts them. It is interesting to see how we instantly thought of the main character as a female, without question, perhaps because it represents the beauty of both human vulnerability and strength. The colourful and blooming flowers that surround her can almost hide how broken she is, visible in her face made up of several different people’s features to present almost a kind of surprise and shock, as a result of the obstacles she faces. There is also a duality in how various beautiful materials make up her dress (similar to a bride’s gown, a sign of purity), also work as the merging mountains, spikes, and icebergs. Altogether, its complexity and abstractness represent the dream, where anything is possible.
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