Tuesday, April 3, 2018
More Conjoined forms
more compositional choices, and color experimentation...trying to figure out how to utilize space more within the first image.
Thesis Statement (Minor Update)
“...you can mash a lot of orcs and unicorns and intergalactic wars together without actually imagining anything. One of the troubles with our culture is we do not respect and train the imagination. It needs exercise. It needs practice.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin
I have created a tool that will open creative possibilities. Fantasy as a genre offers so much freedom to a creative mind, but it’s too often that things from other fantasy works are recycled and featured in other stories. A major subject of this repetition is fantastical creatures. It feels as if there is a finite list of creatures allowed in a fantasy setting (minotaur, werewolf, vampire, elf, etc.) when in reality the space allowing those toying in the realms of fantasy is infinite. My goal with my thesis is to open people’s minds to these possibilities and get them thinking far outside the box and straying from the bestiaries of Tolkien, Dune, and other widely popular fantasy worlds.
I have created a tool that will open creative possibilities. Fantasy as a genre offers so much freedom to a creative mind, but it’s too often that things from other fantasy works are recycled and featured in other stories. A major subject of this repetition is fantastical creatures. It feels as if there is a finite list of creatures allowed in a fantasy setting (minotaur, werewolf, vampire, elf, etc.) when in reality the space allowing those toying in the realms of fantasy is infinite. My goal with my thesis is to open people’s minds to these possibilities and get them thinking far outside the box and straying from the bestiaries of Tolkien, Dune, and other widely popular fantasy worlds.
thesis update
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Often times the casing we live in is labeled, criticized, and packaged to look a way that meets the “ideal” in America. But what is this “ideal” that is so intensely pursued and gawked at? What does this mindset do to us on a deeper internal and physical level? Why aren’t we already this view of “perfect” the way we were born? My answer to this was to create work about celebrating bodies for the vast differences. We live in our bodies for the entirety of our lives and they bare all of our experiences. With each small detail we may see as flaws, there are actually stories behind them that allow us to share our human experiences with one another. We as a culture should be lifting each other up and recognizing that all of us are unique no matter where we come from or what consequences of life our bodies reflect.
Often times the casing we live in is labeled, criticized, and packaged to look a way that meets the “ideal” in America. But what is this “ideal” that is so intensely pursued and gawked at? What does this mindset do to us on a deeper internal and physical level? Why aren’t we already this view of “perfect” the way we were born? My answer to this was to create work about celebrating bodies for the vast differences. We live in our bodies for the entirety of our lives and they bare all of our experiences. With each small detail we may see as flaws, there are actually stories behind them that allow us to share our human experiences with one another. We as a culture should be lifting each other up and recognizing that all of us are unique no matter where we come from or what consequences of life our bodies reflect.
Monday, April 2, 2018
Stickerz
I colored some of the illustrations to make them into stickers.
I ordered these and my 9x6 and giant versions of my book.
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