TWPB Series
You know how people say that the book was better when a movie is mentioned? That's the premise of this series - though I'm not literally placing a value judgment on the painting versus the book, rather, the painting is a representation of the book.
I have always loved reading: I love the idea that there are actions, emotions, and events that someone can put into the exact right words to evoke that feeling or picture to which you can relate so much that you remember when you were there, or it makes you want to be there, and it temporarily illuminates a small segment of reality. I have always dog-eared books and written down my favorite quotes to reread whenever I feel the need to access something that feels true or profound or simply real. As I read, my thoughts coalesce into a visual. Sometimes this picture is a zoomed-in part of a specific scene, sometimes it is an overview, and sometimes it is abstract. But when I see it, I see the whole story, I remember the quotes, and I feel the same emotions as I did when I read the book. It's the way the story looks, condensed to one visual take, based on its emotional content. When I read, I see the story as emotional flow, and this subsequently conjures a picture.
