mockups

The ideas below are what I'm working with, at least for the time being. Ideally, I'd like to pick one mock-up, or a combination of two and use it as a starting place. Eventually, it will be a template for the three-book series. All of the imagery below is inspired by motifs and themes from The God of Small Things, more and less directly.

• the moth is, quite directly, Pappachi’s moth
• the buttons are a simple illustration of kid-objects–the minor props preserved by our remembrance of things past. In the book, for example, Love in Tokyo hair elastics.
• the car is important as a marker of status and westernization; also it is a motif in the story and the setting for important narrative actions.
• the paper stars are not directly mentioned in the novel. However, they are a common sight in Kerala, especially in December. They are Christmas stars, and ready evidence of the large Christian population in the state. The Hindu/Christian split is a theme in TGOST.

My top contenders: picture # 23 from the March 4th post; the top mock-up from March 8th; and the mock-up from March 10th.