In the narrative, this scene takes place in the kitchen
of an Irish castle, where Branwen has been locked away by her husband. This
castle is also re-occurring later in the same branch of the story, and this
played a factor in the development of a possible composition, where the castle
is the centre point of one large image with 2 narratives overlapping. I later
decided that the second half of the narrative, where Bendigeidfran the
Giant wades through the Irish sea with his army to save Branwen, is best
kept as a separate image as it would be impossible to capture the castle in
Ireland up close, whilst also capturing an up-close scene of Bendigeidfran on
the coast of Wales.
My aim when planning this composition was to create
a more abstract scene with symbols of narrative, thus being the letter written
by Branwen to her brother Bendigeidfran, and as he is a giant, scale became the
main factor of the image. The challenge was, how could one starling carry a
letter for a giant and how would it be transported? If the letter was written
in the format of being folded into an envelope, it would be hard to design a
contraption to carry it, but as a scroll it could have ropes wrapped
underneath. The purpose of the tree was to keep the letter sturdy, and to give
a guide of the scale.
Overall, I am happy with the composition of the
image, and I feel that the image does depict complex narrative within an image
as it doesn’t give too many indicators of what the narrative is about, but can
also be seen as the introductory image of the set.
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