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[start image description: A digitally drawn black and white comic that is 16 pages long.

The first page depicts a person staring through a car window as buildings pass by. They have a funeral program in their hands, and it is late in the evening.

The second page depicts the same person from the previous image now exiting a house. They are wearing a large jacket. A wide shot of a dark quiet neighborhood is accompanied by the shushing sound of waves.

The third page depicts the person stopping in a sandy area and taking off their shoes. The last panel widens out to show that the person has walked to an empty beach at night.

The fourth page depicts the person rolling up their pants and walking into the water. As they walk, the waves crash into their feet.

The fifth page is just an image of the beach, with the person walking along the shoreline somewhat in the distance.

The sixth page depicts the person scratching patterns in the sand alone, until suddenly they notice someone else with them. Looking up, they see themself but younger across from them, also making patterns in the sand.

The seventh page depicts the two of them continuing to draw in the sand. The younger speaks to the other, "You can still draw with me, I’m not going to mess up your pictures. I haven’t seen you in a long time, you haven’t visited." The other person replies saying, "I moved away, remember? We decided to leave years ago."

The eighth page continues the conversation from the previous one. The younger asks, "Was it scary?" "What?" is the reply. The person looks away as the younger says, "Leaving! You went so far away from everyone." The person avoids looking at the younger as they say, "Hm, well. I still called my parents. Kept in contact with friends. It wasn’t bad. After a while I got used to the change, so no it wasn’t that scary." The younger begins to stand up. They reply to the person with, "Well! If it wasn’t scary, then was it as good as we thought it would be?"

The ninth page depicts the younger beginning to walk away from the person. The person begins to say, "Oh, well. I just-" as they get up, only to pause. They watch the younger bend down by the water, facing away from the person still.

The tenth page shows the younger startling as the person begins to speak again: "I felt stuck. I just kind of thought that staying here would mean I’d never be able to go anywhere, so leaving would be a reassurance that I could do anything anywhere and not just here for the rest of my life. I figured it would make me feel better." As the two of them stand near the water, the tide rises and falls against their legs. The younger pulls a large shell out of the sand. They gesture to the person, calling out, "Look, this could have come from someplace far away, maybe deep in the ocean." The person admires the find, "Oh wow, very nice."The eleventh page depicts the younger turning to the person and suggesting, "Hey, let's go look for other ones." The two agree on this and begin to run into the water, the elder of the two

taking off their jacket in the process. They remain out in the water for some time, taking up multiple panels. In the last one, hands can be seen breaching the surface of the water, air bubbles trailing off their hands.

The twelfth page depicts the submerged limbs of the two people in the water. The younger strikes up conversation again. "Did it make you feel better?" they ask. "What?" The other replies. "Leaving. We wanted to so badly. New places, new people. You said you thought it would make you feel better, so did it?" is the response. "I don’t think anything ever gets less confusing," the person looks at the younger as they continue to speak, "I don’t know, It was nice for a time. I didn’t really want to come back, I think." The person pauses for a moment before continuing to speak, "Hey. I’m sorry. I don’t think I'm what you wanted me to be at this point. I know we wanted to leave. But now that I’m back everything just kind of feels the same." Turning away from the other so the face is not visible, the person exclaims, "Which doesn’t even make any sense!" Cupping water in their hand they continue, "I can go, and things have changed so much, yet everything is still here. I don’t feel that different even though I feel I should. I can just go to my old room, or to the store, or go here and nothing has changed. I don’t know why I even bother trying." The younger interjects, "Do you really think it will be like this forever?" Hand hovering over the water, the person replies, "Maybe. I don’t know to be honest. It’s just. It’s hard to let go, I realized. And now I don’t know if I want to do that at all in some ways. You know, I take it back. It is scary to leave." The younger is faced away from the other, the back of their head and shoulders are the only things visible above the water. They comment, "Well, I wouldn’t want to be here forever. I like that we left. If anything I think it will make things easier for you." "Easier?" the person questions the younger.

The thirteenth page depicts the younger peeling away from the other, waving a hand in a nonchalant fashion halfway through the water. "I know you wanted to talk to me because it would remind you of a different time. But while I’m still here, there’s things about you that I can’t be. You may never be what you wanted to be but at least you did something," They say. "Hey…hey don’t go out too far," The person cautions, starting to move to the retreating youth. The younger is almost completely submerged in deeper water as they look back and say, "And it’ll be okay, I think. Maybe you can’t go back but you can always try something new, and then you can look back and maybe you really wouldn’t have changed as you said. But I don’t really think you want to stay like this, at least not with how you are right now. Give it some time." In the last panel they dip out of sight, leaving the other person alone by themself.

The fourteenth page depicts the person diving under to follow the younger. As they dip a bit lower, they water gets darker. The page shifts to pitch blackness.

The fifteenth page is completely black.

The sixteenth page depicts the sound of waves against sand. A hand is visible, zooming out to reveal the person sprawled against the sand. The waves lap at their submerged hand and lower torso. They do not get up. /end image description]

Did this for an ecocinema class. The original project just had to be a five page script, but the professor allowed me to make a comic out of it. Here is the bibliography containing all the literature I referenced when writing this.

Basso, Kieth H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1996.

Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter. A Political Ecology of Things. London: Duke University Press, 2010.

Iovino, Serenella, Cesaretti, Enrico, and Elena Past. “Walking Roots: Knitting Past and Future through Italy’s Woods.” In Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies, 235-241. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2018.

Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2011.

Slovic, Scott, Iovino, Serenella, and Shin Yamashiro. “Water in the City.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 34, no. 1 (2008): 157-170.

Tsing, Anna, Swanson, Heather, Gan, Elaine, and Nils Bubandt. “Ghostly Forms and Forest Histories.” In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

#art tag #image description #comics #this was an italian ecocinema class and i was under the impression it either had to be placed in italy or about the movies we watched #buut someone wrote about the grand canyon so UHH oh well #that being said its very much not obvious #but they are in gela

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las-microfisuras · 2 months

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Anne De Gelas, L’Amoureuse, Editions Loco, 2023

#anne de gelas

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gelapalma · 6 months

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Shout out to makima for bringing these guys together, amiright?

#csm fanart #chainsaw man #csm art #Csm illustration #csm denji #aki hayakawa #power #csm power #gelas jellos

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joeinct · 6 months

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Photo by Anne De Gelas, 2013

#Anne De Gelas

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john-taylor-daily · 4 months

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#john taylor #gela nash taylor

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illustratus · 2 months

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Gelon granting peace terms to the defeated Carthaginians on condition that they give up human sacrifice

by Michele Panebianco

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lionofchaeronea · 1 year

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Archaic Greek terracotta antefix in the form of a Gorgoneion. Artist unknown; 6th century BCE. Now in the Museo archeologico regionale, Gela, Sicily. Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #Archaic Greece #classical mythology #Greek mythology #Gorgon #Gorgoneion #art #art history #ancient art #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #Archaic Greek art #Magna Graecia #South Italian art #antefix #terracotta #Museo archeologico regionale (Gela)

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namjoonstiddies916 · 4 months

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they’re so freaking cute🥺🥺🫶🏼

#sebastian moy #gela walter #tickling

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whencyclopedia · 9 days

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Gela

Gela (Greek: Ghélas), in southern Sicily, was a Greek colony founded c. 689 BCE and it remained an important cultural centre throughout antiquity. Prospering on trade and expanding its territory, the city-state founded Agrigento. In the 5th century BCE the tyrant Gelon reigned with success but the end of that century brought attacks and destruction by Carthage. The city revived thanks to the Corinthian general Timoleon but was destroyed in 282 BCE by Phintias, ironically the tyrant of Agrigento.

Foundation

Gela is located on a long and low hill running parallel to the Mediterranean sea on the southern coast of Sicily. The first settlements in the area date back to the copper age (2800-2170 BCE) with the town of Gela being founded c. 689 BCE by Greek colonists from Rhodes and Crete, amongst whom were Antifemo of Rhodes and Entimo of Crete. The town was initially called Lindioi and then changed to Gela shortly afterwards after the nearby river.

The foundation of Gela was one of the most daring enterprises of Greek colonization in Sicily because it took possession of the island's southern coast, dangerous for the presence of the important indigenous Sicanian and Siculis centres. When the Rhodium-Cretans landed they reduced the local people to the servile state (except perhaps the women they took as wives in the first two generations), occupied the plains and the surrounding hills, and merged the indigenous culture with their own.

#History #Gela #Sicily #Greek #WHE #[#]

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desifleabag · 2 months

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Marathi shivya >>>

#bhosadyat gela🎀#marathi #desiblr #desi #desi shit posting #desi academia

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