Unit 5: Reading- Comics Poetry

I fell in love with Marion Fayolle's work. I was able to connect with it, probably because of the human figures. But the ideas behind her illustrations are so real and recognizable. I loved how she put the drawings together to illustrate the ideas, in way I wouldn't have thought of. I chose the candle man one. I loved the idea behind them all, especially because they were not difficult and completely abstracted but clever and twisting. In this sequel of illustrations a woman has a lit match and is putting it to the candle mans head where the wick is. She watches him melt and then takes her clothes off and jumps into the puddle of his melted body as if it were a pool of water. The human figure turns into wax and then wax turns into water. I think it is telling a narrative about how some relationships with people, not necessarily romantic, but any can have someone who is controlling. The controlling person can force something upon the other that makes them melt or disappear into nothingness and makes the other became into something else. While the one with he flame causing the pain or the disappearance can just take off their clothes and enjoy themselves like of they were going skinny dipping in a pond. So while some suffer and transform other enjoy themselves in the the persons puddle of despair. I love it how she uses such simple figures to create such an explicate narrative. How she transforms one thing into another like the way one word can express other feelings a lot with it. She made a person into a candle which the other person enjoys themselves going for deep dive swim in their puddle.