Chris Ware
Fragments of Yesterday
Workshop with Nadia Hafid
Courses and workshops
Chris Ware’s vignettes often alter relations of time, and the next one may represent something that happened in the distant past. In this workshop we’ll be looking at formal narrative resources that allow these leaps in time and instantly connect with the reader’s experiences and memories.
Personal memories are very much present in Ware’s work, as are the passage of time and looking back, and they help to build the identity of the characters. Based on analysis of a series of photographs (a first car, a birthday, first day at school...), we’ll record the emotions or connections we make with our own life experience. We’ll then come up with a short narrative based on these images and what they suggest to us, and represent this little story in a synthetic, minimalist drawing. We’ll do this using tools that allow us to produce a clear result and simplified lines, such as a limited colour range, geometric shapes and the work of silences.
Participants: Nadia Hafid
This activity is part of Chris Ware, Thinking in Pictures
