The title of my project one is "Down the Rabbit Hole", and it is adapting a text by Lewis Carroll "The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland." I chose three small passages from the fairly long children's book and mashed them up with the WVU school colors and a distorted image of the "Flying WV." The primary goal of the way the text is notated is to attempt and compare Alice's Wonderland to the wonderland we all emmerse ourselves in when we enter college. As one reads the main passage, his eye travels down the image, climbing over the many impediments placed in the image--the color blocks, the designs and the other passages. It is an attempt to allow the kinesthetics of the image to let the reader travel down the image into their own "Mini wonderland" just as Alice follows the rabbit into her strange adventure. Unfortunately, as the reader's eye travels down the words they begin to become increasingly less clear and harder to read, much like reality begins to degrade for Alice as increasingly strange things happen to her. The text "I had such a curious dream" is located in the top right hand corner to suggest to the reader that maybe what they're reading isn't actually real. This is an important part of the image as the main point of the image is that reality is not as "real" as one may initally believe it to be. The flying WV may not be as clear cut as one believes, life may not be as simple as just "being a Mountaineer," and maybe hitting the clubs on Friday night is just our version of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
The main notations I tried to use were the use of motion of the eye (as mentioned above), the the use of integrated pictures and dissolving text, and different styles of the text appearing in the image. The main text is written in fairly normal font just using the text box, but the words in the upper right hand corner are written with a paintbrush, almost as if they were added as an afterthought--that maybe, just maybe, it WASN'T all a dream, and Wonderland, "reality," and WVU are all the same place.
1 comments:
I am not really sure what the relation between the word and image of this project; I feel that it is going in two different directions. It took me awhile to find out what the idea of point of this project was simply because I thought there were two different things going on in this project. Now that I understand what the project is about I can definitely see how you relate it to WVU. Notation is used by signifying the symbol of WVU and how it relates to Alice and Wonderland. I really like this project because it sticks out and is unforgettable. It catches the reader’s eye and makes the reader wonder for a split second what is going on. It throws a lot of randomness all at once but brings the whole story together after awhile. My advice for the author is that I would add more text, and make the story longer. I feel like the story could continue based on how much (white) space is still there. The project does well technically in terms of the image and design because you can see that the author put time in the project figuring out how to work things.
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