Rooted Book
Student Project - Spring 2019
Mixed Media Book - Wood, Leather
21st Thacher Art + Architecture Annual Mary and Carter Thatcher Award - Honorable Mention
This project is a book I created that shows the growth of a tree. I told this story using a poem by Nakita Gill called You Have Become a Forest. It relates tree growth to human growth in a simple way that fit my idea perfectly. To show the passage of time, I used two elements: pop-up features and my layout. For the pop-ups, I inserted one element on every other page that showed a step in the growth of a tree. This started with an acorn, then a single sprout, followed by a single branch, and finally the entire tree. To show passage of time through the layout, I arranged the text on each page to sit on concentric circles that increased in diameter with every page. These reflected the rings of a tree that increase every year as the tree grows. This expansion outward gives the reader a sense of progression.