For
my senior thesis project, I decided to visually show my journey with my
identity and alienism. I came to the to the word alien as I’ve lived through
different experiences, met certain people who have impacted me, and understood
the world around me. I believe I am foreign in many ways and want to express my
different states through design.
There’s
one event that has had tremendous impact on the way I perceive the world and
how I identify. The most traumatic and life changing event I want to share is
my adoption. I was adopted at only a couple days old and feel this has shaped
who I am as an individual. Through therapy, rigorous internal processing and
relationships have I found that many deeper conflicts lie within myself. As
I’ve grown up, I’ve discovered things about myself and my struggle with abandonment
to be something deeper.
Another
important thing that happened to me was I met someone who opened my mind up to
extraordinary things. She not only taught me a lot about the world that
physically exists around me but helped me see and feel things beyond. It’s a
little hard to explain, as I’m sure this comes off as bizarre. I have
discovered more about myself and “where” I came from more with my relationship
with her than ever before. She taught me about different spaces, and things
that exist in different times that helped me piece my puzzle together.
Both
of these events are incredibly significant because they help shape me. Although
the second event is fairly recent, the feeling I have inside of how this fits
is surreal. It still impacted me and it still matters. I’ve felt for my entire
life that I came from another world because of my disconnect with my adoptive
family. My adoption has seriously altered my way of thinking and I’ve come to
be okay with the circumstances I find myself in. This is important because it’s
helped me be comfortable with myself, my family, my surroundings, and any and
all relationships I find myself to be in. My experience with adoption is deep
and I’ve learnt a lot through it. It’s been my biggest weakness but it’s made
me stronger than I ever believed I could be. When I met this person, I was
closed minded to the fact that there might be more in this universe than what
we’re able to see. Through the intensive therapy I’ve done for most of my life,
I can say the way my system feels about otherworldly possibilities rings home.
These
two events definitely cross paths and have a lot to do with each other. I plan
on making the connection apparent with what I hope to design and work on. They
are incredibly meaningful to me and hold a lot of my core. I want to express my
inner way of thinking and my perception of this world through this project. I
also want to challenge audiences on the possibilities of things “out of this
world”. I’m hoping to use my knowledge of typography and visual design skills
as the foundation for my capstone project.
Week 1
Research Egyptian
hieroglyphics and history
Week 2
Sketch/concept
new language/typeface
Week 3-4
Continue to
refine while continuing to research
Week 5
Have rough
version finished and digitalized (final version?)
Week 6
Figure out what
content I want to show
Start sketching
ideas for print series
Week 7
Continue to work
on series
Week 8
Start laying out
book spreads
Week 9
Work on
photography piece
Start to
implement photography into designs
Week 10
Start putting
together content into book layouts
Week 11-12
Figure out what
I’m missing and what more I need
Week 13-14
Refining book
and print series
Week 15
Make sure book
is ready for printing
Order
Week 16
Make sure prints
are ready for printing
Print as soon as
possible
Week 17
Hope the book
arrives/put together my project (finalize)
Week 18
Present and
showcase work
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