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Poster One

Ideas surrounding the intersection between nature and human developent in the age of the Anthropocene is what this piece demonstrates. That being the point in human history where the line between what is natural and what is not becomes increasingly blurry. This is turning our world upside down, and causing a climate crisis as we all know.

“The New Religion”

is what the text on the white ribbons reads. It is a reference to Carl Jung’s proclamation in The Red Book. For me, in the context of this poster I’m suggesting a type of personalized, individualistic religion that promotes self growth and exploration. This being the point of Carl Jung’s Red Book. By doing this self work, and becoming more conscious humans we might be able to save our planet. At this point in my process for this project I’ve gone off the rails and entered a space similar to the space I create while making these posters. I don’t know where things are going, and there’s something exciting in that.

“At this point in my process for this project I’ve gone off the rails”

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Poster Two

As I went further

off the rails I started to explore the concept of “the mystery” which is brought up a lot in Christianity even though the basic philosophy of “the mystery” has been lost to most Christians. It is about realizing the sheer infinite in everything, how there is so much we don’t know, and knowing the wonder in that.

The spiral pattern is an example of a fractal found in nature. It is infinitely repeating, and a symbolic representation of the endless process of living. All of us are metaphorically walking down this spiral, toward the mystery of the unimaginable.

“... how there is so much we don’t know, and knowing the wonder in that.”

In my process for this

specific poster I needed a way to make it appear less flat so I layered the photograph, below, over my composition. This gave the poster a great texture, as well as some depth found in the shadows of the photograph.

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Poster Three

The journey

through this poster was a long one. I couldn’t quite figure out what I wanted to talk about for a while but eventually landed on the Japanese phrase, mono no aware ( 物の哀れ) vaguely meaning awareness of impermanence, or an empathy toward things. Impermanence is topic that interests me a lot as it is universal and something we all share in equally. Whether it’s natural or human made, it makes no difference. I wanted to demonstrate this concept through a chaotic landscape that is reminiscent to me of entropy. I think this poster is the most overwhelming visually out of all of my posters. I think it’s because death and impermanence are such overwhelming as well as important topics to talk about.

物の哀れ

“It’s in your face and it’s loud, making it hard to ignore.”

Appearing as if the space depicted is being scratched, stretched, and torn apart, the final version furthers the concept of impermanence. It’s in your face and it’s loud, making it hard to ignore.

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