Week 4
Feedback from the previous week – 05/05/22
Putting things together / Collecting / Archiving
Time (going through the book, diary)
Use of images in comparison with using diagrams without imagery. (relationship, contrast, combination)
An image can contextualize. It can communicate something more easily. Do I need it? Treat it cleverly. Image = Metaphor.
I am deciding what I want to communicate, what is clear, and what is not.
The typography and layout of a book can give context. As well as the different textures of paper. Emotions, approach, experience.
I can use an existing piece of text (story, interview, etc.) as captions in the brain diagrams.
On Vous Intoxique!
What is successful here is the relationship of the body parts with the words, and how radio, television, etc., can affect the human body. The words I used in my brain diagrams are not linked somehow, making it less successful.
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Artist’s Book
Brain Freeze, or
Freezing Brains
This is a sample of my main idea (so far); the form of the artist’s book I’m designing. The white paper (photo on the right) will be an A4 publication consisting only of images/photography (textures, hidden diagrams, metaphors).
The transparent plastic bag on top is a freezing ziploc bag, communicating the idiom ‘brain freeze’ which means that sometimes we can’t think clearly. This bag contains all the rest of the publications, cards, etc., most of them in A6 size. These are developed using diagrams, simple shapes, etc., coming in contrast with the photographs of the outer publication. The reader can make comparisons according to their relationship, etc.
I can use the date and contents boxes (on the ziploc bag) to write the title of the project, etc. with a black marker.
+ X rubber band that keeps all things together and communicates the brain sections.
This week I have been working on the big publication (A4). The purpose of this publication is to display a series of photographs that I have taken. Some of them are abstract, and some of them are realistic. All of them hide diagrammatic elements/shapes (different perspectives), or metaphors. Really important is the position of each image in the publication. Which is the relationship with the image next to it?
This publication will be unbounded (using a rubber band to keep pages together), which allows the rearrangement of images, and the making of new visual narratives.
(Work in progress.)
I am also working on a series of cards (A6) that will be in the plastic bag along with the other smaller publications. (Work in progress.)
I’m still working on the other ongoing projects that will be part of the artist’s book, making some really important decisions on what to keep, discard, etc.