‘Explain the Unexplained.’

The brief ‘Explain the Unexplained’ evoked the idea of looking into the human consciousness. In particular I was drawn to poetry that explores this, such as Sylvia Plath – which, in itself is unexplained. I was drawn to Plath’s ‘Crossing the water’, which explores the idea of crossing to the escapism of death and its guiding ‘light’. Above is my annotated exploration of the poem.

I started to explore the visual images in the poetry, such as the ‘blackness’ – so I then blacked out the words. I also looked at the idea of the ‘paper people’, which initiated the idea of creating paper men people as a visual representation. I explored literally having two pieces of ‘paper’, ‘crossing the water’.

Note image of lake is found imagery.