My final. The pictures are a little out of order, the top 3 should be the last three, but the program wont let me move them.

For my final project I am making a bookcase, containing 5 books, and book ends. The story will be a children’s book theme, with a sparrow that gets lost from its family. The sparrow will have to ask different types of birds if they know where his family is. During the story time will elapse chronologically, going from the morning when the bird is lost, to the night, when the bird is found. For a physical act of time the viewer will have to pull out each chapter individually. Each chapter will consist of a different bird, and be a different book altogether. (Totaling five chapters) Inside each individual book will be four images, in an accordion style view. I will also include text, just to help the actual story along. The five books will be in order, and labeled to minimize confusion. The book ends will be childlike drawings/ creations of the sparrow and a peacock. I don’t want the book ends to be read as entirely book ends, but more as just decoration. The end result will hopefully look as if it is something to go in child’s room.

3 Minutes of My Life

Flip Book

The Chronicles of Life and Death

Here is the final version of my visual book. I decided to use the same theme as I had mentioned in class but I changed the materials because I felt that the Conte Crayon colors resembled a cave drawing. I also decided to sew the pages together instead of make the pages flip because the backgrounds seem to flow from one page to the next, and I think the story reads better in this manor.

For my visual book I am going to show a simple story using the Native American god of fertility, Kokopelli. I will use the symbol of him playing the flute, and have him dancing with different poses from page to page. For the convergence, I will show the seasons changing in the background, therefore having two images merged together on a page. Kokopelli being the god of fertility, is by default responsible for the change of seasons as well. The book will be constructed out of various materials such as feathers, beads, fabric, and paper. Ideally I would like the size of my book to be about 16"x20", however I am not sure how well this will work, therefore the size may change during the construction. I want the actual book to look like a wall skin, not necessarily look like skin, but just resemble the shape of the skin. I would like for it to hang on the wall, making the viewer have to lift up the pages.