A few weeks ago I participated in a great event hosted by a friend Will Varner called Scroll Bowl where we a bunch of people came together to explore the art of scroll-storytelling. I’ll try to get a link to the video of me telling the story, but until then here are some pictures of my scroll, titled “A Scroll on Ugly”.
Also here is a quick summary of the story:
(1) A scroll on ugliness title page.
(2) All stories need a beginning and many people think that ugliness began with a fall from perfection and a forbidden apple, yet when I look back at my childhood I think Walt Disney is the real root of of my perceptions of ugliness.
(3) Yet no matter what anyone’s personal opinion is, it definitely starts with a talk about the birds and the bees.
(4) When you are done with that story, you usually end up with an ugly evil girl like this little pig hunter.
(5) Though the devil is in the details and to understand ugliness we need to talk about ugly features, like wings and claws.
(6) Mix all of that together and you get an ugly Winged Gatorlope that likes to eat little evil girls for lunch.
(7) More ugly features consist of horns and different ugly eyes and big ears.
(8) Big ears like the ones I had as a kid, aka Eric the elephant boy.
(9) Finally you get the moral of the story of ugly, embodied in this image of Micheal Jackson as a magical unicorn. We can try our hardest to buy ourselves beautiful features, but usually we end up uglier than before, and really when we look beyond appearances the only way to truly become beautiful is to create timeless pop gems that keep people dancing the night away till dawn.