the altered book that I talked about was based on self-growth and understanding that within the darkness, there is always light and to trust the process through tough times. I feel like this is an important topic to talk about because many people try to solve other people’s problems out of kindness, but never pay attention or “have the time” to enjoy time with themselves. Also, I feel like this is important to talk about because not many people talk about finding themselves and loving themselves before they love others.
The process of finding photos was pretty easy, but finding words to complete the sentence that made sense was a tough challenge because there were lots of cool keywords like ‘unruly beast’ or ‘darkness’ but it was tougher to find words to tie the keywords together to make sense. The three artbook techniques I used are flaps, hidden content, and cut-outs. and the three art-making techniques I used were paper silhouettes, paper cutouts, and black-out poetry. the three art development strategies I used are minification, multiplication, and distortion.
