OUIL504

Process and development

Initial ideas for this project are going along the lines of a personal response for this author:

Considering space as not such a literal concept but as one visible in images using scale and proportion. 

Presenting the idea of the universes' indifference to us by illustrating destruction within environment.

Presenting youthful ingenuity through trial and error of main character.

Painting a somewhat lonely image of main character and the struggles she goes through and eventually perseveres to reach her goal. 

Developing idea into thought of a book narrative. Considering a rhyme story to illustrate a whimsical nature. 

Story is more of a metaphor for Sagan's ideas, concepts and motifs. 

Sagan was a teacher who believed in nurturing and developing the inquisitive nature all children possess instead of stumping it. 

He was a cosmologists who searched for life in the universe as well as understood out place within it as one of responsible awareness. Knowing as much as we do and what we are, we should discontinue this path of destruction and learn to care sustainably for our resources so that we can responsibly develop the technology that will eventually take us to inhabit other planets.

Knowing our galaxy has an expiry date, he looked to other worlds that could potentially sustain our life on it. He was a constant optimist. 

These are ideas I want to relate in a not-so-direct message in my story. 

Looking to inspiration in 

Studio Ghibli

As a way to tell a compelling narrative with appropriate arc and meaningful and 3 dimensional characters. 

Margarita Esta Linda La Mar

Ruben Dario was a  Nicaraguan poet that I grew up reading. This story is one that jumps out at me from my youth. About a young girl that travels to the stars to cut one down. I think its beautifully written but its message is too religious and a bit selfish in its morals. I'd like to almost parody this story but from a scientific aspect showing some of Sagans' motifs. 

A bit worried about condensing this narrative down to two images, but if I develop a way of quickly producing quality images I think I can do more than five images and make it a longer book.

Looking to do something with reductive monoprint and monotype. Also interested in doing lino print.