Final Open Project:
Choose a printed matter, and decode the meaning of the information provided by your source material and represent these findings in a visual form. Examine how the tactile sensation of holding the object impacts your experience, as well as the information relayed through printed images, text or handwriting. Your final artwork must reflect the visual and written information provided by your object in some way.
Project Description:
In the historical mystery fiction The Name of the Rose, one of my favorite books, written by Umberto Eco in 1980, there was a library in a Benedictine monastery in the 14th century Northern Italy. The library was designed and built based on the “world map” Medieval Europeans knew.
I found the concept “a construction of a world“ attracting. As a result, I traced the structural drawing of the library, originally printed in the novel, onto another paper. After that, I researched and illustrated what those locations marked on the map featured back to the Middle Ages. My material and design choice intended to make the outcome correspond to the aesthetics of those old, antique maps.
