Below are my visual interpretations of the chosen extracts:
"The old established inhabitants of the city kept away from that area where the scum, the lowest orders had settled- creatures without character, without background, moral dregs, that inferior species of human being which is born in such ephemeral communities." P.70
(Watercolour, Ink and Masking tape on paper)
"Everything seemed suspect and equivocal there, everything promised with secret winks, cynical stressed gestures, raised eyebrows, the fulfilment of impure hopes, everything helped to release the lowest instincts from their shackles" P.71
(Ink and Watercolour on paper)
"Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character." P.73
(Photoshop)
" An atmosphere of strange insignificance pervades the scene. The crowd flows lazily by, strange to say, one can see it only indistinctly; the figures pass in gentle disarray, never reaching complete sharpness of outline." P.73
(Graphite on paper)
" Let us say it bluntly: the misfortune of that area is that nothing ever succeeds there, nothing can ever reach a definite conclusion. Gestures hang in the air, movements are prematurely exhausted and cannot overcome a certain point of inertia. " P.76
"Over the whole area there floats the lazy licentious smell of sin, and the houses, the shops, the people seem sometimes no more than a shiver on its feverish body, the gooseflesh of its febrile dreams. Nowhere as much as there do we feel threatened by possibilities , shaken by the nearness of fulfilment, pale and faint with the delightful rigidity of realisation." P.76
" We shall get involved in misunderstandings until all our fever and excitement have spent themselves in unnecessary effort, in futile pursuit." P.76
Concerning the last three extracts, I have imagined them as characters who are exhausted by the atmosphere, they reflect on their vicinity and vice versa.
(Graphite on paper)
lovely! More please, Anass!
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