the giving tree

for my new design class (which i will rant about at another time) we had to read the famous poem by shel silverstein. this poem always seems to come back to me at certain parts of my life - and i assess it and interpret it differently every single time it seems. there are quiet alot of emoitions embedded in the words of it - and our assignment was to graphically (and in Adobe Illustrator) create our response to the poem.

here is my response:




"I wish I could give you something, but I have nothing left"

this poem intermediately reminded me of being taken advantage of -- and in this case, being taken advantage of your whole life and in the end -- the person who always gave is happy in the end. this was something i recognized with alot of my friends and especially my biological father in the year - few months. and the hardest thing was for me to let go -- even when i had nothing left to give.