The Art of Living
illustrated artist's books
The Art of Living is a project exploring choices we have in life, reflections on how to live, and day to day musings of the designer’s life. Housed in a visual system, the project takes on a journey in search for a balance in polarities. The work represented takes trails and traces from life in measurements and is then adapted into varying publication forms. The rabbit represents a self searching for balance in the different worlds he is in.
Each form of each theme has a measurement. The measurement represents the journey; the length of each theme. By restricting myself to work within these measured numbers, I am trying to find my balance in these predetermined frames. Life is afterall often not within our grasp. How to grapple balance within these restrictions and choices becomes what I wish to find in this project.The final outcome becomes a spread of 9 items in varying sizes of books, cards and booklets. Through flipping the differing forms and frames, the reader is able to ponder each theme in the varied worlds the rabbit is in.
Indulgence & Restraint in pages of 5 varied sizes.
Size measured of time taken of indulging and restraining from an act in 5 days.
Stay or Change in 26.1 x 26.1 cm
261 being the number of days of this project.
I & Me in 16.8 x 16.8cm
16.8 being representative of the 168cm of my height.
Need & Want in 12.2 x 12.2cm
12.2 being the 12.2 miles between where I needed to be and where I wanted to be some point in this project.
