The Project
One Without the Other contains journal entries from the author that she has compiled over the last decade. It highlights her journey through the trials and triumphs of life and focuses on the influential relationship she had with her father.
The author explains her motivation as, “the whole trick is, we have to learn how to carry our sorrow just as much as our joy. You don’t get one without the other.” This concept, accepting life's opposites, is what inspired my work.
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Concept
Inspired by the concept of opposites I chose to focus on light and shadows and the intricate relationship they share together.
Process
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Taking inspiration from shadow origami art I wanted to recreate the author's silhouette with her father's print. Here the paper would hold the author's father's fingerprint to symbolize the lasting impression he made in her life.
At first glance a found-object, yet after further observation a larger meaning reveals itself.
Strategy & Revisions
I worked my way through folding construction paper to create a realistic representation of my author's silouhette. After many revisions and different lighting techniques, I arrived at the highlighted silhouette.
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Comps
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Interior Artwork
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Inspired again by the concept of opposites, I chose to focus on the intricate relationship between light and shadows.
This imagery symbolizes the author's pursuit of life. Emphasis was placed on scale to symbolize a great, strenous task to ensue.
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Chapter Two is titled Livingston the author's father middle name. For this chapter, I chose the imagery to conceptualize the relationship between a parent and child; moving through this life together, eventually eclipsing one another other - and the child to carry on.
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Chapter Three is titled Atrial in honor of the authors fathers heart complications.
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I chose to symbolize this event as a dark, unknown, room that the author didn’t realize she was entering.
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