I have already finished one of my genre pieces for the 2-genre project, and I had a lot of fun doing it. Putting it all together to make it look like some old town newspaper was my favorite part of it, I think the aesthetic is nice and it makes sense given that the Blackwood murders and Constance’s trial was six years before the events of “We Have Always Lived in the Castle”. Most of the town seems to believe that Constance had killed her family, despite being acquitted in the trial, so I suspected that the way it was publicized had impacted how the town felt about it. A sensationalist reporter, seeking to draw the attention of the public, would twist some things around and add some nontruths. To spice things up, I added an “interview” based off one of the characters that harassed Mary Katherine in Stella’s shop, Jim Donell.

I haven’t exactly started the artist book by this point, I am a little unsure of how to begin but I’ll figure it out eventually. I considered making the front and end covers look like the court documents or something, but maybe it would seem out of place with Merricat’s imagination and magic. I may end up doing a hybrid of collages and drawings, since it is a little difficult trying to do an artist book using a computer. We’ll see how it turns out.

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