Frans Masereel's The City

[My modified piece]

I feel that even with the minor modifications that I have made the panel takes on an entirely new meaning. Suddenly the crowds are more fearful, the people, instead of being pushed together  by their sheer size, are now being pushed together as they all try to flee. The blasts of steam and exhaust are more threatening and sinister, and on the whole an entirely different image is created. 

[The original]

Directly above is a frame of Frans Masereel's The City, a frame which I took and modified as part of this project. I chose this image because I felt that it lended itself easily to the ideas that I had in mind. Everything in the frame is already in motion, and there is little unity to it. All of the people and cars are headed to their own locations, even if for a moment they share a common direction. With that in mind I wanted to give them a reason to do so, thus the alterations I made to the frame, which is something of an after image, taking place after the action in the panel below, but also something of an alternate panel, taking place at the same time in a different  world, perhaps.