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Carolin Motal
This story is told without words, as Carolin Motal wants it to be understandable for everyone only by looking at the pictures. The story is about a girl who finds herself homeless after an awful storm has destroyed her house and she fell from a cliff into deep woods. There she meets a lantern. The lantern helps her to find the courage to talk to people and to ask for a place to stay. But after a series of disappointments, the girl loses all hope. When she disappears into a snowstorm, the lantern tries to run after her but is blown apart by the strong winds. Concerned for the safety of her friend, the girl searches for a place to stay just one last time. She reaches a lighthouse, covered in ice and snow. The top is not lit, but she knocks anyway. An old man sitting in a wheelchair opens the door to let her in and helps her to light the lantern again. In return for saving her friend, she runs up the stairs and lights the lighthouse. Now she has found a place where she and her friend belong and they can help the old man run the lighthouse.
C A R O L I N M O T A L was born in 1995 in Hamm, a small city in Germany. Her interest in drawing and creating stories was sparked early in childhood, and soon it became the focal point of her life. She graduated from the Adolph-Kolping-Berufskolleg in 2014 in the field of Design, with a professional training as a Design Assistant. In 2016 she started studying at the Münster School of Design, majoring in Illustration. The two years in between were spent developing her skills on her own, learning from others and figuring out what she wants her art to be like. She has yet to find the answer, but impressive colours and deep meaningful stories have always tugged at her heart strings. Being one of the winners of this competition is the first major success in her life as an artist. But for her, this only marks the beginning of a wonderful, exciting journey.
J U R Y R E P O R T The composition of the girl
lying on the forest floor surrounded by dark bare trees exudes a strong sense of loneliness. The girl’s search for a new abode, helped by a lantern, is shown through a sequence of images. Facial expressions as well as the suggestive body language – also displayed by the lantern! – show how both gradually lose courage and hope. In the final spread, the direction of the girl’s glance towards the old man, as she stands at the top of the newly-lit lighthouse, forms a hopeful contrast to the frozen sea spray.
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AND THE WINNERS ARE…
