I compiled the illustrations of the images alluding to Plath’s ‘blackness’ in ‘Crossing the water’ to create an ambiguous story, thereby reflecting the unexplained nature. The story goes full cycle to explain itself, with the poem jumbled up at the beginning and the words ‘black(ed)’ out to be put in the correct order at the end – therefore, explaining the unexplained.

I experimented with both newsprint and tracing paper to give a fragile characteristic matching mental state of the protagonist, desiring to escape reality into the ‘blackness’ of death. Also, it added a transparent quality reflecting that of the lake.