In our convergences book we were asked to view a piece of Lynda Barry’s graphic essay and address where our eye is drawn first, what jumps out immediately, and what elements take longer to absorb. I looked at the picture and the two things my eyes were drawn to first were the text and the images of the human figure. The human figure is what jumped out immediately. I’ve heard of babies being attracted to things that resemble the human figure or face and thought it was somewhat funny that it’s sort of like the same situation here with most of us. I think it’s just the way we’ve been taught and what we’re used to. The elements of the picture that took a little longer to absorb were just the small details of the picture and faded text. I think naturally anyone would automatically be attracted to something bolder and more noticeable. I also think the cursive text in the background is less dominant than the bubble letter text. When you think of signs made for pep rallys or protests they are made with letters that are big and colorful, similar to the big colorful letters that are more noticeable in the picture. I think I particularly like this picture because it reminds me so much of all the notebooks I’ve ever had in my life. I constantly find myself drawing or writing a completely random sentence that’s in my head. That’s what I see a lot of this picture being, just a bunch of different things that was on the authors mind coming together to form this single piece.