Coalescence

This was the final unit of my Ma course. My intention was to make a series of illustrations in response to a series of poems. As the project progressed it developed into experimenting with different printing methods and an exploration of book binding techniques.

The purpose of exploring poetry was to experiment with sequential drawing and narrative and to push my expression of narrative further.

Experimenting with book binding was a natural progression and allowed me to explore the more tactile side of the project. In a similar way, risograph printing offered an opportunity to explore the illustrations as book pages, play with type and layout and allowed me to consider the resulting book as a whole. Risograph also allowed me to bring colour into the project and to consider how colour could intersect with the message.

All type in the final pages were hand lettered to relate more closely with the line quality. Through the process of experimentation the resulting book and subsequent smaller accordion and folding books explored storytelling in a way I hadn't expected at the undertaking of this project.