process book pass 2

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Proposal......................3
Previous Work.............4
Current Work..............14
Senior Show................34

My current body of work has led me
to making simple drawings of dogs
coupled with nihilist phrases then
cutting them up into simple books.
The premise of these books is that
each page shows a shape or letter
or something seemingly nonsensical,
but when the entire book is
broken down and fully unfolded
it reveals the complete drawing.

I have a small set of guidelines for
myself when making these books.
The book must be made in a way so
that it can unfold into a flat piece of
paper; so far I have been doing this
by only making them out of one sheet
of paper each. If there is a line on the
spread that goes to the spine, try to
make the line continue onto the next
page. There is no particular reason for
this, I just find it aesthetically pleasing.

I have been working with two figures
this semester, the chicken and the
dog. As of right now I am sticking
to the dog, but I may incorporate
the chicken at some point.

I began this semester with the idea
of taking real world objects and
breaking them down into abstract
icons, since last semester I worked
extensively with icons and simple
images and wanted to stick close to
this theme, so it began with chickens.

The idea didn’t stick, but I certainly
had a lot of endearing pictures of
chickens in my sketchbook, so I took
all of these images and compiled them
into a book. This too didn’t stick, but I
clung to presenting my ideas in book
format for the duration of the semester.

The chicken was a bit sore to look
at after this point, so I changed my
subject to dogs, and instead of a
traditional book, I switched to books
made of single sheets of paper cut and
folded to make small pages. This was
a fun format; it cut up the image in an
aesthetically pleasing way, but the books
were not stable and easily tore apart.







I took a brief detour back to chickens
to attempt a fan fold book. The switch
to digital drawing as well as minimal
paper cutting certainly helped my
process, but I still wasn’t “there” yet.



Finally, I landed on a combination of simple
digital drawing, handwritten text, and cutting
single pages into small ten page books, and
this is where I stayed for the rest of the semester.











































For the show I printed and folded
two hundred individual books and
stickers for people to take home.