Reading & Responding, Part IV - Chosen Text & Visualisation

I have been working to keep my visualisation response to the text as non-literal as possible, however my ideas are now coming to the point that the ideas may be too far removed from the signifiers within the text.

• Fear
• Death
• Darkness
• Wretchedness
• Isolation
• Self criticism
• Abandonment
• leading to hope
• Enlightenment
• Conquering of fears

However, my thoughts are still currently centred around splitting the final work into two parts, - A dyptich is a potential likely vehicle to respond to Invictus.

The concept of Death as depicted in a graveyard scene on  a very cold winters day, dark sky, snow, fog & gloom; with the silhouettes of gravestones and crosses and monumental angels can be very bleak.
Consider this juxtaposed with;
The same graveyard scene but in spring season, golden light, beautiful flowers in bud and bloom, vast distant vistas of meadows with abundant growth and joyous birds in the air etc....

There's so much ground here that at times I have wondered if all my ideas can be actually recorded!... The suggestion to make just simple thumbnail sketches of ideas is a great one, I have been using this to formulate and hone the concepts over the past couple of weeks now, and as a sample of the process I have outlined some of the sketches below;