concept and narrative

i derived upon the metaphor of the numbers zero and one to denote the ideal, and the two, which i consider lies in between,(connected symbolically as the rain drop between sky and sea)- to denote the world of grey, man's state of dystopia.

The narrative can be broken down into four parts broadly-
1.an introduction into an ideal world
(through the metaphor of numbers zero and one) unravelling the starting point or cause of a dystopia by proving that only 0=1 ;-
breakdown:
character(boy) staring at bowl
character dips spoon into bowl to eat
zoom in of spoon, grains expand, metamorphosis from grains to atom to atom bomb
from bomb to a zero
zero clims up towards sky
boy looks up at sky
boy extends hand to touch/reach the zero or the complete world
zero rains when touched (it is unachievable/unreal)
raindrop is the number two
drop enters through boys eye and trickles to his stomach
feeding the same fish he ate, which comes from the sea.
sky = sea
visual proof that zero = one
and the world of man is neither, it is of that in between, the 'TWO'.


2. taking the reader into the world of forms (depicted by the number 2- that which lies between zero and one)- the major categories being
a)the begining of seeing - 90 degrees of sepeation
character smoking cigarrete
fingers widen as cigarrete reduces , finally falls to the ground when
the thumb and index are at 90 degrees, the separation from animal to man.

b)the fig leaf (clothing) -
the leaf as the starting point for seeing, the first form that man covered himself with. symbolically the leaf takes shape from the shape of number two.
forms multiply until the characer is lost in a labrynth of forms.

c)laguage - words that come before a thing, words between himself and everything else.(symbolically represented through the metaphor of apple eaten and defecated- the transition in between.)

d)the central charatcter waking up to having forgotten everything he knew that was learnt,the awe and absurdity he feels, questioning how one who can no longer relate to the rules of society function in a collective world?

3.the conflicts within the world of dytopia -
creation and balance
the distance of seeing (is seeing believing?)
deception
the viscious circle- the tail swallower, the more you know the less you know
the begning of an unquantifyable madness
individual vs the collective

4.the war between the numbers-
reality wins over the ideal.



In terms of the text and image interplay that the genre of the graphic novel promises, the structure aims to eliminate text to the essential, relying heavily on the visual.
the intention of this book is to disown individuality of form to alone convey an idea, and hence uses visual symbolism to string a narrative.