Identity: Reflection

The design is “Self in Progress” and is meant to be made as a half page booklet made by me (Karley Schimpf). The medium of the design project to be a small booklet serving as a guideline to major words that mean a lot to me personally with abstract pictorial representations. The structure is the use of one recurring pattern piece with the left facing page primarily consisting of an image made using the pattern to depict the word on the right facing page.  The specific subject is the six words in use to give someone perspective into how I live my life and some of the beliefs I hold personally. The images are there to allow for a more freeform interpretation of the concert definitions given. What may have been my reasoning and the shapes that I made with the pattern may from someone else’s perspective seem to be something else due to their own personal interpretation of the word and image and their life experiences. The unifying principles in this work is the way in which each word is presented and the shapes used in the images for each word. Each word is treated in the same matter equal to each other and their definitions are treated in the same way. No one word is given more stress over the other words in the booklet. This gives no indication to weather one holds more meaning or contributes more than the others. The only time that a word is stressed more than the other is when I use an image in the largest shape on the last word to help better communicate the gravity and meaning behind that perspective/word at the end of the booklet. As if it is a remind each time after flipping through the booklet what that last perspective really means compared to the other words. Originally I wanted to do a large hand drawn mandala then burn it and show the creation and destruction of it in a meditative way. Again I got ahead of myself and did not think of the time allocation or my own personal motivation in the project, this is something I am working on and will have to continue working on when deadlines become more concrete in the working world. Because of this it leads me to this booklet I make lists quiet often and have a slight OCD where I need to have everything organized in such a way otherwise I can’t work. I am also forgetful and can lose where my point A was in relation to my point B and somehow end up at point C. So I felt it fitting to make a booklet, much like my lists that reminds me of some of the things I find important. I want the audience of this project to come away from it with a possible better understanding of my thought process and how I digest information, and maybe come away with their own interpretations of the words or find ways that they fit into their own life style.