This is a illustrative, as well as typographical, representation of another famous speech of Cathy's from Wuthering Heights. This quote is from the same speech as the previous piece. This time, she talks about her love for the two men in her life, which are beautifully metaphorical: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, i'm well aware, as the winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath; a source of little visible delight, but necessary". Here, she's saying her love for Linton is infatuation, whereas she would die for Heathcliff; she couldn't live without him like humanity couldn't live without our molten core. Heathcliff is her core, even though she doesn't see him as often as she'd like.
The trees have been stripped of their foliage by the winter, as Cathy describes. I tried experimenting with colour; black or white. Black blends better and ties the picture together and looks more realistic like a silhouette. The rocks in the background represent Cathy; as, in the book, she's in the middle of Heathcliff and Linton. The tree's roots cling to the rocks but they must let go eventually. The lava that dominates a half of the page is Heathcliff's love; a bright, burning pool of passion and heat that will last for eternity. The rocks above come from the magma below and exist because of them.
Lastly, I applied a parchment texture to the background to add a vintage quality to the image. The modern, century gothic-looking serif font is to add a post modern effect by combining vintage styles with modern type faces. It is also a romantic font as it's simple and in caps. Additionally,I wanted to keep colour and light to a minimum because the nature of the novel is deep and dark.
(Experiment 1; left. Final experiment 2: above)
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