Bird’s Eye View visual script

Below is an excerpt from the preparatory script Pauline created before embarking on artwork for the “Bird’s Eye View” poems. Corresponding scripts have been created for each poem or otherwise-discriminated section of the larger “story,” and are working documents that are the locus for negotiating the play between words and pictures. The script is a typical practice in the production of comic books, but usually looks more like instructions from the writer to the artist. This segment demonstrates a more collaborative practice: the resulting narratives include images that were not always intended by Anita, straying far from simple “illustration” of the text.