No, not an on-line meeting with a long agenda, but a great, wordless picture book by Istvan Banyai. The idea is simple and intriguing. I mention it because it builds on some of the ideas that may have arisen from the last post based on ‘Inside the Egg’. The book presents us with a series of pictures. Each time, the camera/ viewer zooms out to see more of the context, thus constantly changing perspectives and our own interpretations and expectations of the sequence.
The first page shows a bold red block of colour with a zigzag top. On the next page we see that it is the comb of a cockerel. As the viewpoint changes we see that this is part of a toy farmyard which is part of a model town.
Then we notice three large fingers in the top right corner.
The picture is on the front of a magazine held by a boy….
…and so the sequence continues.
Our writing club experimented this week with the ‘Inside the Egg’ idea and writers came up with some great ideas: inside the book, inside a pond, inside a wallet in a sequence that ended with greed and anger, inside the stable. It was intriguing to think about this infinite Russian doll point of view and find where it might lead to.
Writing Box 