On the Final Project

Form poetry is what I'd like to do. And with the skills I've picked up from this semester and the wonderful Adobe CS3 suite that is available in the classroom and in my roommate's Mac, I think I can do this and take it to an extreme. This idea is plausible, but the key issue right now on figuring out what exactly I have in mind. There are some stories and some poetry of mine that could be made into a painting, but it's difficult to say which would be the most successful or even useful. Meanwhile, there are various images I would like to "paint" but to do this would seem to take up a lot of text that might not be very legible after it's all done. Also, do I want my words to work by themselves and be coherent and readable? Or do I want something more abstract, making things more difficult to read and perhaps making the piece nontraditionally read? For example, I can take Van Gogh's Starry Night, and illustrate it with words: making the moon an actual moon composed of the words moon against the sky that is actually the word sky repeated over and over again and so on. Similarly, I can find different images and make them out of the words they are then combine them into one. Like making a tree out of the word tree (via Type Masking) and inserting it into a desert made up of the word desert. I don't really know, but I'll have to figure it out soon enough.