For this assignment, we were asked to randomly choose a quote from The Winged Seed by Li-Young Lee. With the chosen quote, we were told to illustration our interpretation of the quote as we understood it and to have the quote itself bordering around the illustration.
My quote from Li Young Lee’s piece was, “Once, I said, I can hear me, but I can’t hear you, you with your ghosts, me with me mockingbird.” This quote immediately resonated with me because it automatically reminded me of myself. I would consider myself as a loud person, a mockingbird, as Li-Young Lee describes. Upon first reading the quote, I already knew how I wanted to represent it. The most important aspect of this representation are the musical notes making a delineation between the side that we cannot hear and the side that we can hear. I chose to use musical notes to separate the two sides because when we think of sound, that is something we typically associate sound with: music. The first side represents the part of the quote that states: “I can’t hear you, you with your ghosts.” I depicted this side by writing the quote nice and big and illustrating ghosts, which I took literally from the quote. The other side of the musical notes represents the part of the quote that states: “I can hear me…me with my mockingbird.” Once again, I wrote the words, “I can hear me” and I depicted that side using mockingbirds, just as it literally states in Lee’s quote.
I think even though I took Lee’s quote quite literally in meaning, it still gives you a sense of how I interpreted it. I wanted to emphasize the two opposites of being heard and being unheard, which each different side represents.
