Art based on poetry
| And Nothing More - An interpretation of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe |
For this project we were presented with a series of poems and tasked to create an artistic expression stemming from one of these pieces, the only rule; no language.
An initial idea of mine was to interpret a poems structure via another medium, presenting a thought provoking challenge.
I read through the poems and was struck by Do not go gentle into that good night (Dylan Thomas) and The Raven (Edgar Allen Poe). Both of these poems having rigid structure with repetitive segments. Eventually I chose The Raven and decided to represent the repetition of the rhyming couplets within the stanzas and also the recurrent line "and nothing more" via a cyclically repeating animation, and what better material to focus this animation on than the titular raven.
Additionally, in recreating the original form with copies of the raven attempts to visualise the line "Only this and nothing more"
Created with Blender and Adobe After Effects
Rendered with Eevee
| 360 of the scene showing it from other angles |