Summary
Page 1. panels 1/2/3/4
This panel shows what appears to be Earth, then the adjacent 3 panels
gradually pan back, countries on the globe eventually coalesce and
become more obscured as the sphere changes its aesthetic, some of
the detail surrounding the sphere appears to gain definition.
Page 1. panels 5/6/7
These next three panels clarify that which we have been looking at is the
dark eye of a falcon. This sequence presents a more reduced panning
back, and shows the falcon is already in flight, thus something has been
happening of which we were not initially aware; events are already in
motion. This alludes to the tumultuous events that had already been taking
place in Germany in the years following WW1 and leading to WW2.
Page 1. Final Panel
Here I introduce a much wider scope and in turn the panel presents
two new elements of importance: the Bedouin falconer and the desert
landscape. This panel is sketched in a looser and more abstract style, it
is an almost ghostly vision in a kind of inversion of the falon/falconer line
being (slightly) less abstract than those which precede it, the graphics
should flow in opposition to this, so as to create the twisting irregularity.
Page 2. panels 1/2/3/4
These panels present a symmetry between panels 1- 4 of page 1, and 1-4
of page 2. The intention of this technique is to offer a varied perspective
through the recursive sequencing; it is as though one could scan quite
naturally through the upper level panels of both pages left to right, via
a seemingly natural and obvious progression. However, as one follows
conventional comics form and thus tears away from this sequence, things
are not progressing in the manner in which they ‘should’; something pulls
away, demanding attention. The falconer wants his bird to return but he
has to get away from the threatening storm; that which he has to do is in
conflict with that which he wants to do, just as the eye wants to follow the
sequencing but has to move away and progress logically.
Page 2. panels 5/6
The approach to the landscape desert images here makes things a little
clearer aesthetically – the perspective widens again – but this time its
intention is to portray the falcon attempting to make its way either out of,
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