Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Magic - Part 2

Just finished my response for Petr's book in good old fashioned style - on the bus to Spindleruv Mlyn with Nikki at my side.
The idea being to illustrate the song Magic by Bruce Springstein, I started with the hanging men that Petr had finished with, but let them hang a little differently. I sort of went for the last two lines before the refrain in each verse and mix them up together, so the rabbit is hiding in the magicians hat which normally he tries to draw a bunch of flowers from, but this time he's gotten a whole forest for the ghosts to hang from.
This piece is a whole lot bigger than the pieces I've done before, basically the story kept on getting more complex, at one point I thought I'd turned into Ruth, with this fantastic story for how the men had escaped from their fate in the trees and caught a ride into this new world…………

I got a rabbit in the hat
If you wanna come and see
This is what will be
This is what will be


Trust none of what you hear
And less of what you see
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be

Driftin' like a ghost amongst the trees
This is what will be
This is what will be (This is what will be)


Bodies hanging in the trees
This is what will be (This is what will be)
This is what will be