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I try to stick to my Creative Challenges to do a four panel Sequence on the first sentence of a book I grab. I will continue doing it until I will make up another challenge for myself.

This one is on a poem by Emily Dickinson, which I found in the book “A Shaking woman or The History of my Nerves” by Siri Hustvedt. I can relate to the poem. When I found the pictures I did a long time ago, they reminded me of the poem:

I felt a cleaving in my mind        As if my brain had split; I tried to match it, seam by seam,       But could not make them fit.

The thought behind I strove to join       Unto the thought before, , But sequence ravelled out of reach        Like balls upon a floor. 

Emily Dickinson

“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.” The first sequence from Peter Brooks “The Empty Space” is my creative challenge today to do a four panel-sequence.

When we can´t stand the fear, the shame, and the self- reproach that we feel, we obliterate it with an addiction. (...) They´re intersting because they´re called to something–something new, something unique, something that we, watching, can´t wait to see them bring forth into manifestation. At the same time, they´re boring, because they never do the work.

Out of Unknowing and sacrifice we come bearing our wonders our wounds and our gifts.

Alice Walker

“They send girls like me to the crazy house–or simply stone us to death.”

I chose the book by Maria Toorpakai “A Different Kind of Daughter” to do 4-panel-comic-page on its first sentence.

it isn´t like having supper your arm dips into the falling voice hidden between strucks of self confidence scramed the horro of things dissolving that once were loved back cup walks straight to your lips she stands unmoved in her red dress forgetting my card your are over me but what do you matter after all we sit playing little Cowboys

My creative challenge: I grab a book from the shelf and make up a four-panel- comic- strip on the first sentence of the book. I use a variety of materials, photos even. This Creative Challenge was proposed by Nathalie and Joe Sejean from Activate Creativity http://www.mentorless.com/activate-creativity

I chose a book with a poem of Marie Luise Kaschnitz, whose poem I did not find translated into English. So I translated the first sentence into english.

Auferstehung

Manchmal stehen wir auf Stehen wir zur Auferstehung auf Mitten am Tage Mit unserem lebendigen Haar Mit unserer atmenden Haut.

Nur das Gewohnte ist um uns. Keine Fata Morgana von Palmen Mit weidenden Löwen Und sanften Wölfen.

Die Weckuhren hören nicht auf zu ticken Ihre Leuchtzeiger löschen nicht aus.

Und dennoch leicht Und dennoch unverwundbar Geordnet in geheimnisvolle Ordnung Vorweggenommen in ein Haus aus Licht.

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

This is the one of my creative challenges I was taking with Activate Creativity, a program set up by Nathalie and Joe Sejean from  http://www.mentorless.com/.