I'm making the call....an awesome one.

For our next project, we were told that we could do anything we wanted. I had an idea that was inspired by two things. First, our discussion about religion. I heard quite a few people tell stored about how they were mistreated in church. That made me wonder how things might be different if they were treated better. Also, I've been taking a comic class with Matt Powers. In our book The Art of Making Comics there is a section about choice of frame. It showed how taking out a single frame in a sequence of frames telling a story could change the meaning of the story.

 Also, in comics, the authors choice in size of the frame and of course what is in the frame can have an impact on how the story is seen. Sometimes, it can make the story move fast or slow. Sometimes, it can let the reader get a sense of where they are in the story. Sometimes, it can have an emotional effect. And other times, it can be wordy and crowded. You could remove a big frame and change a big part of the comic or a small frame and just change a small meaning.

I got to wondering, what would happen if I took a key event in my life and removed it? How would it change the story of my life? What would the story of my life look like? Would it be slow and calm, or fast and confused?

So as I thought about one part of my life, a very huge one, that I could remove that would have a big impact on my life. An event that changed the shape of my life was my mother's death. I then wondered, how would that change the next "frames" of my life. I would feel a lot more secure. I might still be "skinny" ( I was much smaller, but while my mother was sick, people were always giving us food and I was home alone a lot. So I ate.) I would not have any tattoos and I would have never had a pet rat (a pet that I loved quite a bit). However, I would have not learned what I learned from her death. I have to be a lot more independent now, so I learned how to do that over that last three and a half years. I would not be as close to my dad as I am now. My mom was the person I usually went to when I had problems, but I go to my dad a lot now.

As for the look of my life, I would probably have a lot of emotion evoking frames, since my life has been touched by a couple of tragic deaths as well as depression. It would probably have a lot of cool, dark colors.