Developing Practice in Graphic Arts

 VAN DOESBURG (as image?) Here are some interesting answers after posting the image on Facebook: Can you tell me what you see and how long it took you to get it, does it remind you of anything and your personal feeling about it?          'I read 'The human mind'...?'    'The End...' 'I like that type, shape and colour.  Not sure if it's really The End cos that letter down left corner makes me confused' 'The mind. Straight away. Makes me think of pieces of torn paper put together as letters' 'To the end ...' 'The mind and The End! (About 5 mins)  makes you feel a little disorientated, questionable and deep in your thoughts! Reminds me of tribal drawings and hieroglyphics!' 'Love it. Looks like a block print... Japanese... Reading: the end. Ten. Mind. Didn't take me long' 'Now I also see the human mind That took quite a while' 'I see a face   I read "The mind"' 'I think I am the only one...

These little creatures represent thoughts that come and go every day. Persistent, happy, sad, melancholic, overworked, terrifying, overwhelmed, selfish, altruistic, ego-centred. A whirlpool of emotional and physical exhilaration and exhaustion! Let's go back to the beginning?  What is my project about?     BOOK DESIGN -  TYPE -  IMAGE -  MIND  I created a book, a graphic novel, a picture book, slash comics. What is it exactly? I would go with all of these together. It's a mix, a hybrid of them all. Mostly narrated in pictures, words, however, play an important part. Without words, the story would be misunderstood? Or maybe understood differently? So, the story has pictures and words and they do complement each other. Or, at least they're giving some sort of an explanation of the idea I translated into a book form. What is the story about? In a very short description -  A METAPHOR to ease busy MIND. An idea of looking into the human condition and s...