'When Images Come To Us...'

Looking through Lynda Barry's, 'When Images Come To Us...', the books asks us... before we jump into the graphic pages, we should look out for what catches our eyes first, and what takes longer.

For me, I started 'zoned' out on the pages, only capturing the shapes that the pages had within, instead of the graphics, or the words themselves. Both pages had that feel of a window when I looked into them, based on the box structure each of them had.

Both pages asked different questions: where are the images found, and what/where is your imagination. All of the answers were like cut-offs, different messages to express the answer in their own way.

The arrangement of the words were cut out from difference sources: from magazines to handwriting, to pictures. The messages were varieties, shouting out these random thoughts to the viewers. It could be confusing to one who isn't used to this sort of 'creativeness'.

After a while, the way the pages were made, reminded me of the band 'Radiohead', based on how their album covers ('Hail To The Thief' being a good example) showed these messages within some form of graphic. In the example I've mentioned, the messages are pilled up on one another, showing the building of subjects: all these little problems cramming up into becoming one big problem.


That's what I experienced in this. It showed that there is more ways to look at something with little bits of messages, all meshed up, and doesn't make a lot of sense at first.