the winter lakes

Hushed from the outward strife, where the mighty surf is grinding
    Death and hate on the rocks, as sandward and landward it roars.

For my visual representation of The Winter Lakes, I knew that I couldn't just draw or paint a single picture. I believed the poem couldn't be captured in just one image of a lake and a purple sunset -- so I decided to use a series of images to represent what I think encompasses the poem. I created three 'picspams' of ten images each that show what I believe to be the themes, emotions, and visual representations of the poem. 

The majority of the images I used don't involve a winter lake at all -- instead, I used images that made me think of the poem or ones that I thought conveyed the same emotion. I first created a picspam that was largely the colour white; the images in this picspam range from a wintery scene to a wolf and even to people. Although animals and people were never mentioned in the poem, I feel as though these images capture the poem perfectly. The white picspam is almost hopeful, but still creates the image of a winter scene that is lonely and and yet beautiful.

Next, I created a coloured picspam. I believe this picspam captures the life that is described in the poem, because although the winter lake seems to be lonely and desolate, I imagine the purple sunsets and wildlife that roams around it, and I think it would be lovely. It also captures the violence and hardness of the winter lakes.

The last picspam I created was dark and mostly contained the colour black. This picspam captures the darkness and desolation of the winter lake. Several of the images are of people that seem to be desperate, and I believe all of the images show the dark beauty of the poem.

When placed together, I think all three of the picspams create a visual representation that captures all of the themes mentioned in the poem. To me, the poem paints a picture of a lake that is lonely and dark, but at the same time, is beautiful in that loneliness and darkness, and I strived to show this in my visual representation.