Coding: Acceptance Speech (Illustrator: Flotsam)

1 V: Love of poem, words Flotsam and Jetsam

2 V: Likes a colloquial definition of Flotsam and Jetsam – odds and ends
3 V: Considering flotsam as ideas, images and memories
4 V: Child – love of flotsam (down to earth kind)
5 V: Childhood – discovering artifact in woods
6 V: Childhood – woods seemed huge
7 V: Child – woods was an “exciting and mysterious place to play” ..couldn’t keep away
8 V: Childhood story – digging in woods
9 V: Childhood – building dams was one of his favorite activities
10 V: Childhood story – discover artifact in mud
11 V: Childhood story – examining the artifact
12 V: Childhood story – curious about how the artifact got there
13 V: Childhood – fascinated – the artifact had an unknown history
14 A: Thinks his imaginings were “far more exotic than reality”
15 V: Artifact – kept on work desk
16 V: College sketchbooks
17 V: Artifact (lost in fire – deeply saddened “it was like loosing a little piece of my childhood”)
18 V: Artifact (lodged in his memory)
19 V: Childhood - Wanted the artifact (the two friends disputed when younger)
20 A: Upset that artifact was destroyed
21 A: Hopeful that another kid may find it
22 A: Childhood flotsam story motivated his idea of child stumbling across an extraordinary object
23 V: Time spent with family at beach
24 A: Childhood story – compares arriving at the beach to arriving in another world
25 V: Childhood story – Immediately ran to the beach
26 A: Childhood story – compares island to an enchanted land
27 V: Fascinated with beach, excited
28 V: Childhood story – recalls people looking at a fish in pool
29 A: Childhood story – wondered what other creatures were in the sea
30 B: Creative process is hard, challenging
31 A: Plan was not clear-cut
32 A: Plan not clear-cut (figuring out what the object would be)
33 A: Plan not clear-cut (decided on camera)
34 A: Plan not clear-cut (character changed)
35 A: Plan not clear-cut (didn’t want to change design)
36 A: Started again from scratch
37 A: Idea began to develop
38 A: Experimented with images, multi-paneled pages – single full-page images, double page spreads
39 B: Reader exploring, discovering (wordless book – exciting reading experience)
40 A: Scary to leave part of the process to spontaneity
41 A: Must be willing to move to unfamiliar territory
42 B: Learn new things when in unfamiliar territory (fosters creatively)
43 A: Scary – when an idea doesn’t work
44 V: Support from friends/co-workers
45 V: Support from friends/co-workers (collaborators)
46 A: Good sense of humor
47 A: Perfectionist (sleepless nights working on black lines around pictures)
48 A: Exciting and challenging to put Flotsam together
49 V: Support from co-worker
50 V: Support from family
51 V: Environment fostered by family
52 V: Work place which is surrounded by his family
53 B: Best environment to create is surrounded by family