Last summer I bought an old dictionary from a thrift shop for 99 cents (cue Macklemore music).
Inspired by the Walt Whitman quote:
"Were you thinking that those were the words—those delicious sounds out of your friends’ mouths? No, the real words are more delicious than they.
Human bodies are words, myriads of words;
In the best poems re-appears the body"
I set a goal to do one drawing of a human body per letter in the alphabet of the dictionary to illustrate the relationship between physicality and language as outlined in Whitman's poetry.
I didn't complete the project before going back to school, but I hope to resume it during Christmas break. Stay tuned!
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