Vis Narratives update #3

It feels like a while since my last post. While I was home over christmas I visited a few rocks/caves and did location drawing, which helped with just building broader research  For a long time I did too much thinking about how I was going to develop imagery from my research- it felt pretty broad and i was interested in very different strands of it. 

In the last week I started just churning out imagery (learning by doing). So far my favourite things are cut paper from graphite textures- quite simple? There is still a long way to go in developing this project- I'm happy with most of the product of this recent burst of image making but I feel like it might need more to it (more beefy, more meaning).

I wonder if I'm not thinking about the overarching theme so much? it feels more image (abstract) driven than idea driven at the moment- maybe thats ok for a picture book? then again a stronger feel of context often makes a picture book more interesting? Again these questions need answering quickly as I want to decide on the imagery soon so I can spend plenty of time making the book look nice. This time I'm going to try and decide by making rather than vaguely thing.