Metaphor:
The vision of her in the coffin turned into a cold unknown hand wrapped around my throat and mind stopping my breath and compressing my emotions inside me.
The trees on the road were turning into a tunnel choking me and disabling my vision so I couldn't see anything else and the black road was all I could focus on.
Story:
It's funny and disturbing how life presents you with random psychic moment. It wasn't any sooner than the night before when I was discussing how i missed a friend from middle school with my best friend. I had planned on getting back in touch with her and catching up, so did my best friend. The next day I received a call with the horrible news of her tragic death at the age of 16. She had died in a car accident. She had run into a tree head on at night. After hearing the news I had decided that I wanted to go to the viewing because I couldn't go to the funeral. I remember the black roads that my father drove me down to get to the funeral home. The trees on the road were turning into a tunnel choking me and disabling my vision so I couldn't see anything else and the black road was all I could focus on. They reeked of death and depression. When I arrived at the destination I had tunnel vision. After passing by a few people I knew at some point I made my way to the chapel for the viewing. I couldn't recognize her. They had tried to reconstruct her face, but what was left vaguely resembled her. She appeared to be sleeping and I wanted her to wake up. I almost wish I hadn't gone to the viewing because the vision of her in the coffin turned into a cold unknown hand wrapped around my throat and mind stopping my breath and compressing my emotions inside me. The reality of life choked me.
The picture reminds me of an female artist that we watched in Lecture where she made things out of tree branches. In this image the hands could be the tree branches because the area down the dark road was probably surrounded by trees and also the reality of life could be represented by tree limbs since they are in our lives. The limbs could be wrapping around and choking the figure.
ReplyDeletewhat lee said but instead if choking a girl, what could represent the choking/dying girl
ReplyDeleteI THINK THAT YOU SHOULD INCORPORATE EVERY ASPECT OF THE STORY IN THE PIECE. IT WOULD MAKE IT VERY INTERESTING(THE TUNNEL VISION PART ESPECIALLY). NICE METAPHOR.
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