The project started with us being provided with penguin classics books, Which gave a place where we could to start our project. My book was called the tinder box but it also had other little stories in the book such as little Claus & big Claus, the princess on the pea, the steadfast tin soldier, the nightingale and the red shoes.
For the first lesson we had to pick a few words from the book to focus on then we then had to go into more detail what the words could mean. Going through the book i highlighted a few words, the words being Death, Dreams, Witch and Garden, after going into more detail about them we had to start to pick and start making collages to go with them. I then went on to produced 2 collages each for death and dreams. For the next 2 days of college, I had to transfer my collages onto the computer then started to digitalize them by adding words in different fonts and then on Thursday we had to do a minimum of 2 layered illustrations each with 3 layers of tracing paper, based on the concept of parallel universe/ multiverse/mirror worlds. I decided to look up some people for inspiration for my work and i came across Tang Kwok Hin and Brooks Salzwedel, i really like how they did their art by creating weird yet beautiful apocalyptic looking art, so going of their work For the first illustration i decided to base it on a parallel universe in which the world started to break and fall apart and some of the parts that would have broken would start to float for unknown reasons and for the second illustration i did in this parallel universe its similar to the turtle with an island on its back but instead, a snake and how it works is that when the snake is coiled up and goes to sleep it creates the island and the spirits can come out but when the snake is awake and uncoils itself and move the spirits go back into the shrines and sleep and the island it actually all along its body but becomes a whole once coiled up.
Throughout the project, i only focused on a few of the stories in the book them being the tinder box, the nightingale were the main two i used but i also used a few quotes from the other stories.
For the next week couple of weeks, i had to pick another few words or sentences.I choose 3 quotes 2 witch where from1 story and the other was from another little story in the penguin book.
-” angel of god in the white robes” The red shoes by Hans Christian Andersen
-” In the garden, you could see the most wonderous flowers” The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen
-” is there such a bird in my empire” The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen
After picking the words or sentences we then had to draw them out in whatever font we wanted then draw something to go with them.
And in the next session, we write down the quotes we chose from our little books and had to write it big after that we cut it into strips and reorders and changed them round we make up some sort of language or code.
In the next session, we had to pick another couple of quotes out of our classic penguin book. Both the ones I picked wherefrom the nightingale storey I reused the quote "is there such a bird in my empire" and the other quote I chose out of the book was at the start on the first page just something about that sentence and how it was written I couldn't help but use it stood out to me. "The forest went right down to the sea, which was deep and blue. Great ships could sail right under the branches. "
In another session, we had to pick more words or sentences out of the classical penguin books and the make little collages based on them. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a technical problem but it was easily sorted while waiting i had to carry on so instead of doing the collages based on the quotes i went and started thinking about doing them based on the multiverse and parallel universe, in the end, i only got to do one collage based on a quote i picked which was,
"shes still standing on one leg with the other lifted high in the air"~the red shoes
I made it so the girl who was dancing with her leg up and she is dancing between 2 realities fantasy and reality.
For the final outcome, we had to do was to create 2x A5 postcard based on the multiverse/ parallel universe. I am super pleased with how my outcomes turned out. For my first outcome, i was inspired by the film treasure planet I love the idea of a flying ship and going through the universe but what also inspired me were the idea of flying whales but i change it to an orca and for the second outcome one I based it of a quote I found on Pinterest: "You're always one decision away from a totally different life" When I first read this quote I thought this was perfect for a multiverse or parallel universes, like a simple yes and no question could change you life may it be for the better or for worse.So the idea I got was to do a princess about to become a queen but the way she decides to rule the kingdom and what her choice could lead to if she chose right or wrong what consequences it would bring.
In total, i really liked this project i learnt a lot of new things along the way and it was fun exploring ideas for the multiverse and im also really happy with how it turned out in the end.
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