Official Review: The Speed of My Life by Bissaturation
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Official Review: The Speed of My Life by Bissaturation
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "The Speed of My Life" by Bissaturation.]
What little there is of The Speed of My Life by Bissaturation is striking, beautiful and poignant.
The book is twenty-four pages long. It contains photographs and a poem. It is a work of art dedicated to the author’s parents, who died when she was young.
Poetry is subjective, and so, to a degree, is photography. I am not an expert in judging the merits of photography or art. When reading poetry, I think about how it makes me feel as opposed to whether it adheres to given rules.
The poem in this work is written in a free-verse style, so there are no rules. The words speculate on what may happen at the time of the author’s passing from the world if she meets her parents at the portal between this world and the next. She conveys in her words the pain of not having known her parents very long. The poem is beautiful and melancholy.
The photographs are varied and sometimes in stark contrast to one another. Photographs taken while in motion are followed by a still image of a bridge at night, lit by multicolored lights. The author also utilizes photomanipulation techniques which serve to convey a dreamlike atmosphere. There are images of the author’s parents. The photographs give the feeling of taking a journey through the mind and emotions of the person who took them.
I give The Speed of My Life four out of four stars. It is a beautiful and striking work, conveying the sense of a segment of life gone by too quickly to have established any sort of permanence in the author’s memory. While the length is right for what the author wishes to convey, as a reader I found myself wishing that this monody was a segment of a book as opposed to the whole book.
The thing I liked best about The Speed of My Life was the creator’s commitment to capturing her emotions regarding her parents’ all-too-brief presence in her life; the vagueness, the sorrow, the impermanence. She has transformed her grief into a powerful work of art.
The thing I disliked most about The Speed of My Life was the brevity of the book. I feel that the monody should have been part of a larger volume of the author’s work. And yet, I feel conflicted about stating this. A book should be whatever its creator wishes it to be.
I recommend The Speed of My Life to readers who enjoy art and photography that makes a powerful impact. I would not recommend it for those who are frustrated by very brief publications.
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What little there is of The Speed of My Life by Bissaturation is striking, beautiful and poignant.
The book is twenty-four pages long. It contains photographs and a poem. It is a work of art dedicated to the author’s parents, who died when she was young.
Poetry is subjective, and so, to a degree, is photography. I am not an expert in judging the merits of photography or art. When reading poetry, I think about how it makes me feel as opposed to whether it adheres to given rules.
The poem in this work is written in a free-verse style, so there are no rules. The words speculate on what may happen at the time of the author’s passing from the world if she meets her parents at the portal between this world and the next. She conveys in her words the pain of not having known her parents very long. The poem is beautiful and melancholy.
The photographs are varied and sometimes in stark contrast to one another. Photographs taken while in motion are followed by a still image of a bridge at night, lit by multicolored lights. The author also utilizes photomanipulation techniques which serve to convey a dreamlike atmosphere. There are images of the author’s parents. The photographs give the feeling of taking a journey through the mind and emotions of the person who took them.
I give The Speed of My Life four out of four stars. It is a beautiful and striking work, conveying the sense of a segment of life gone by too quickly to have established any sort of permanence in the author’s memory. While the length is right for what the author wishes to convey, as a reader I found myself wishing that this monody was a segment of a book as opposed to the whole book.
The thing I liked best about The Speed of My Life was the creator’s commitment to capturing her emotions regarding her parents’ all-too-brief presence in her life; the vagueness, the sorrow, the impermanence. She has transformed her grief into a powerful work of art.
The thing I disliked most about The Speed of My Life was the brevity of the book. I feel that the monody should have been part of a larger volume of the author’s work. And yet, I feel conflicted about stating this. A book should be whatever its creator wishes it to be.
I recommend The Speed of My Life to readers who enjoy art and photography that makes a powerful impact. I would not recommend it for those who are frustrated by very brief publications.
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As stated above, I do love a lengthy work of art than a short one. But because the author dedicated this work of art to the parents, I want to give it a read. Must be awful loosing a parent at a young age. Thanks for the review.
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