One of the most profound pieces being of Roy, her babysitter, and one of her father’s ex-lovers. The cross-hatching over the sculpted body of the young Greek-god look alike is radiant and seductive. “The blurriness of the photo gives it an ethereal, painterly quality. Roy is gilded with morning sea light. His hair is an aureole” (Bechdel 100-101). The watermarked background is art itself, symbolizing Bechdel’s mixed emotions, creating a feeling of curiosity. The light and dark shadows embodied the yin and yang of life. The light relishing he good times and the Bechdels shared. The dark shadows symbolizing the sinister future and past. Bechdel is following Mccloud’s six steps. Bechdel expresses the “emotions and purposes of the work’s content,” when she states, “ My father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and reveal” (Mccloud 170, Bechdel 101). The purpose is to provide evidence of her father’s hidden
One of the most profound pieces being of Roy, her babysitter, and one of her father’s ex-lovers. The cross-hatching over the sculpted body of the young Greek-god look alike is radiant and seductive. “The blurriness of the photo gives it an ethereal, painterly quality. Roy is gilded with morning sea light. His hair is an aureole” (Bechdel 100-101). The watermarked background is art itself, symbolizing Bechdel’s mixed emotions, creating a feeling of curiosity. The light and dark shadows embodied the yin and yang of life. The light relishing he good times and the Bechdels shared. The dark shadows symbolizing the sinister future and past. Bechdel is following Mccloud’s six steps. Bechdel expresses the “emotions and purposes of the work’s content,” when she states, “ My father juggled his public appearance and private reality, the evidence is simultaneously hidden and reveal” (Mccloud 170, Bechdel 101). The purpose is to provide evidence of her father’s hidden