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Mar. 6th, 2007 09:59 pmI'm back to mapping. That sounds better than "I'm drawing diagrams," doesn't it?
I'm trying to work out pop culture influences on Australian women of different ages. This isn't a general thing. This is part of my current piece of world-building. I've mapped ghosts and a universe-structure and now I'm mapping people. I want to be able to colour everything in my lovely diagram so I can see overlap and where characters share lives, but I honestly don't know if I'll get further than giving my sixty year old a thing for Frankie Avalon. It all depends....
I could do it with a computer program, but it's so much fun to play around with butcher's paper. I watch a movie and draw lines and put a spot on the line for a birth year then I go teach and the butcher's paper is still there, waiting for me. It stays on my portable desk, restive for new data. I'll finish this map much faster if it sits there, hungry and accusing. Paper's such a wonderful thing that way.
Paper's such a wonderful thing in other ways. I just worked out (on the way to teaching tonight) that Ashkenazi papercutting to decorate the room of a new child or new mother derives its logic from late medieval magic principles. I'm thinking of the Grace after Meals (which uses the same Psalm) in an entirely new fashion. I'm also going to take a closer look at traditional papercutting and see how far it took on aspects of Jewish magic traditions.
I'm trying to work out pop culture influences on Australian women of different ages. This isn't a general thing. This is part of my current piece of world-building. I've mapped ghosts and a universe-structure and now I'm mapping people. I want to be able to colour everything in my lovely diagram so I can see overlap and where characters share lives, but I honestly don't know if I'll get further than giving my sixty year old a thing for Frankie Avalon. It all depends....
I could do it with a computer program, but it's so much fun to play around with butcher's paper. I watch a movie and draw lines and put a spot on the line for a birth year then I go teach and the butcher's paper is still there, waiting for me. It stays on my portable desk, restive for new data. I'll finish this map much faster if it sits there, hungry and accusing. Paper's such a wonderful thing that way.
Paper's such a wonderful thing in other ways. I just worked out (on the way to teaching tonight) that Ashkenazi papercutting to decorate the room of a new child or new mother derives its logic from late medieval magic principles. I'm thinking of the Grace after Meals (which uses the same Psalm) in an entirely new fashion. I'm also going to take a closer look at traditional papercutting and see how far it took on aspects of Jewish magic traditions.