I have created a concrete poetry image with the scene that I have chosen for part one, which was Sethe killing her child. I chose the shape of a hand with the words wrapped around it. The text around the hand is the text from the scene. The hand represents Sethe’s hand. After the horsemen came to claim her and her children to take back to Sweet Home, she believed the only way to save them was to kill them all. Sethe did not want her children to die as slaves, at the hands of another. She wanted them to die from her hands, while they were still free. In choosing this shape for the text, I believe it shows the significance of Sethe’s hands in the story, which was used to kill her child.
Great use of negative space! Your curatorial comment is a bit short. I wonder if you want to also comment on your color choice, your choice to keep the hand free of words rather than make the hand out of the words or how you made this–what program or technique?