Broadsides are visual representations of written works, combining excerpts from poems, fiction, or non-fiction with the imagery highlighted within those pieces.
The broadside to the left was the final, selected piece. It features an excerpt from a longer work, wherein we as readers come to understand the origins of the short story's title.
Given the story's dark tone, I chose a muted color palette of deep purple and soft yellow-beige. I selected a close-up of Jean-François Millet's Ophelia that felt fitting, isolating only the essential details so the figure appears to float within the sea of dark purple.
For the broadsides shown above and below, I took two distinct approaches.
The first emphasizes realism, combining an image of a chapel with figure of a falling woman. This dramatic composition mirrors the excerpt, where two girls watch from within a chapel as a figure falls.
The second approach is more illustrative and simplistic, focusing again on an image of Ophelia. I added a paper-like texture in the background to evoke the academic setting of the story.
