For this project I chose Billy Collins’ poem “Flames”. This poem reflects Smokey the Bear as the complete opposite of what he really stands for. And in order to elaborate on the poem I chose to create a matchbook as my book. With the theme of it being fire I felt that the visualization of a matchbook is the strongest way to relate to the poem. Also, instead of creating actual pages for the book I wanted to keep the final piece to resemble a matchbook as closely as possible. One way I illustrated it was the drawing of Smokey the Bear, which I changed up his face a by changing his happy face to more of an angry look. That part of the book was I wanted to be the main focus, since the poem is about the character Smokey the Bear.
Smokey the Bear heads
into the autumn woods
with a red can of gasoline.
His ranger's hat is cocked
at a disturbing angle,
His brown fur gleams
under the high sun
as his paws, the size
of catcher's mitts,
crackle into the distance.
He is sick of dispensing
warnings to the careless,
the half-wit camper,
the dumbbell hiker.
He is going to show them
how a professional does it.
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