recto/verso

I thought making a thaumatrope to include in my visual journal would be a neat way to address this week's recto/verso prompt. It also uses some superimposing, like we were working with last week. I'd never successfully made a thaumatrope, and I don't know if this one is particularly successful either, but what can I say? That's part of exploring, I guess.

I used a bird-in-egg metaphor to speak to my journal theme. One side of the thaumatrope is the egg, and the other is the baby bird:
































And here's a video of it in action, for what it's worth. I slowed it way the hecks down but it's still really hard to see... if you look closely you can see the bird inside the egg, but it becomes so faint as the thaumatrope gets faster.