[This project was one of my assignments for the Text and Image course I took in Spring 2019.]
Moonrind is in parts an excavation of memory, wherein a singular word was explored using the five senses. By using a storybook, Dr Seuss-esque format, I attempted to recreate the experience of oral storytelling, or stories told in conversation. As such, the result that I put together in a very pastiche way is meant to mimic the chaotic overture of sharing stories—this specific one being a conversation with my eight-year-old brother.
What emerges is a personal exploration of how meaning, memory and interpretation translate through different mediums [oral, visual, textual] and transform by engaging with themselves/their origin. This is comparable to how the sound we hear may not be the sound that is. Although I have arranged the piece to mimic a chronological, one-way storybook structure, the fragmentation and collage-work attempts a certain visual and emotive expansiveness. This is meant to signify a multiplicity in meaning, much like sound waves rippling out in all directions from a single source.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did piecing it together.
Moonrind is in parts an excavation of memory, wherein a singular word was explored using the five senses. By using a storybook, Dr Seuss-esque format, I attempted to recreate the experience of oral storytelling, or stories told in conversation. As such, the result that I put together in a very pastiche way is meant to mimic the chaotic overture of sharing stories—this specific one being a conversation with my eight-year-old brother.
What emerges is a personal exploration of how meaning, memory and interpretation translate through different mediums [oral, visual, textual] and transform by engaging with themselves/their origin. This is comparable to how the sound we hear may not be the sound that is. Although I have arranged the piece to mimic a chronological, one-way storybook structure, the fragmentation and collage-work attempts a certain visual and emotive expansiveness. This is meant to signify a multiplicity in meaning, much like sound waves rippling out in all directions from a single source.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did piecing it together.
