Sunday, August 26, 2007

Corey (without paragraphs)

When you load Corey's page the first thing that hits you is the blood splatter background but that is quickly trumped by the pikachu music. Corey is 17 and "hates the world." There are only two pictures that were placed on the page proper by Corey: a single picture of Corey and a picture of a very angry looking pikachu with the subtitle "sometimes, when I get mad...I kill people." The former photo is a little more interesting. The picture was taken at the same time as several other photos that I would assume were taken in Corey's room and I believe that it was selected above the others for the serious red eye that afflicts Corey in that photo and the plethora of writing and drawing on the furniture in the background. The only background drawing that has not been applied directly to the furniture is taped onto the door of either an entertainment center or an armoire (I can't tell which) and looks like something that you are more likely to find on the fridge of a family with a preschooler then in the room of a teenager. This picture within a picture is taped to the unidentified piece of furniture with blue painter's tape at about eye level for Corey. The drawing itself was done with, I would guess, colored pencils and has the setting of a brown pasture below a white sky on a not too cloudy day. The main characters of this artwork are placed quite confusingly on the line where the ground meets the sky which I would take to mean one of three things: the artist is trying to say something barely philosophical about the subjects, the subjects are placed at the top of a hill or (the one I lean towards) the author did not care to be bothered with perspective. The three stick figures that occupy the center of all that is the drawing consist of a tall blue figure on the right, a slightly less tall pink figure on the left and a small character in the middle that I would identify as Corey. Corey in the main picture is staring away from the camera lens and in the direction of little Corey who is flanked by people that I would term as parents with a look that seems to speak of something lost. I, of course, am unaware of the situation of Corey's parents (as they are never once mentioned) and all talk concerning them is wholly conjecture. An equally strong case can be made that Corey is looking forward and hopes to be one of the parents. Corey writes (I peeked at the text) on the subject of love and the prospect of having children someday but does not want to experience a broken heart "(again)." That can be taken any number of ways and I'm not even going to attempt to tackle the issue of Corey's ring finger which from the picture seems to deserve a great deal of writing in of itself. In conclusion, (lol) it is possible to look in great detail at something like this and try to pull great detail from it but in the end you gain only a vague understanding of how the person wants to be viewed and maybe from that a reflection of who that person is in life but the true core of who that person is most likely remains hidden even from that person. Is it obvious whether Corey is male or female?

1 comment:

D. Martin said...

I commented my own post!