Project2-Book

My theme is sleepwalking. It is a song written by John Cooper Clark in 1980.

Here is the video of this song.

I was inspired by the lyrics of sleepwalk, which were set against the backdrop of the workers’ movement, the social depression and the lack of hope in people’s lives, and John Cooper Clark uses sleepwalking as a metaphor for people going about their daily lives in a materialistic world, observing the world and the people around them, looking at young people and friends who are also in a state of muddle but have no one to guide them. He speaks of people wanting to escape from this life, wanting to make up their minds, but wondering when they will become muddled again.

Here are lyrics of sleepwalk.

SLEEPWALK

I can wriggle out of arrangements
You can’t pin me down
I tend to dodge engagements
I’ll see you around
Am I ok?,
Not really, no
I seem to stop and start

Anything I can do let me know
I think I’ll sleepwalk out of my heart
Sleepwalk in the daytime
Access to all fours
Sleepwalk in a straight line
Leading out of the door

Shop through city on a world of eyes
Marvelously dead
These friends of mine need exercise
They sleepwalk instead

No guardian angle intercepts the
Sleepwalkin’ kid
Who sleepwalks the fractured steps
To the sleepwalking skids

The way the private eye goes
About his ancient art.
I can do it with me eyes closed,
Sleepwalk out of my heart

Stop, look, listen to the zombie
The hoochie coochie blues
Black slacks and a crombie
Gucci shoes

A psycho stud and his steady girl
Are heading right this way
When all the footsteps in the world
Sleepwalk away

A victim of ambition
Loitering with intent
The human condition
But who knows what percent

Goodbye from me till now
I never really care
Sleepwalk anyhow
Anywhere

Sleepwalk, talk
Faster and faster
One of these talking birds
Sleepwalk away from disasters
Like they never occured

Too much devotion
Keeps me apart
Sleepwalk in slow motion
Out of my heart

In the creepy zilch of subways
The sub pedestrian plod
Sleepwalk on Sunday
Beneath the domes of God

Such a hazardous pastime
I’m gonna be smart
Sleepwalk for the last time
Out of my heart

Sleepwalk on duty
See myself in a pool
A sleepwalking cutie
Sleepwalking fool

Stuck in the afternoon
They do go on
When normal service is resumed
I’ll be sleepwalking young

Here are some drafts:

I used black as the dominant color to symbolize the depression of society and red to represent the pain of people’s lives at the time. The engraved patterns indicate the pain that was coming down like acid rain. The illustrations are used to recreate the scenes mentioned in the lyrics.

I envisage going on to make an e-book. People can buy postcards with QR codes. By scanning the QR code on the card one can read my e-book. I hope the reader will listen to the song and see the scenes at the same time. In this way, they can vicariously experience the anguish and despair in the hearts of the people of the time. To understand the society of the time.

Photos of final work

Link of my book:http://books.buke88.cn/books/bddm/cbnn/mobile/index.html

Presentation Video:https://youtu.be/UaRhdNQDrpA