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In this project, I created zines, which depicts a story and its narrative is taken from an inspirational quote or poem. The two narratives I chose were “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get,” a famous quotes from the movie, Forrest Gump<\/em>, and Psalms 23, a passage from the Old Testament in the Bible<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Ideation<\/h1>\n

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Psalms 23<\/h1>\n

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Psalms 23 is a beautiful poem of the safety and security one find’s in God. This is a special psalm as it helped ground me during the darkest moments of my life, one being the passing of my mother at 16.<\/p>\n

I imagined landscape paintings like Claude Monet’s artwork. Sidenote: During this time, I had visited the Chicago Institute of Art Musemeum four separate occasions for four difference classes within a one month period. I was very drawn to Monet’s painting, especially Irises<\/em>, 1914. I loved the texture of the paint against the canvas, along with the colors depicting the elements.<\/p>\n

This influenced the direction in how I wanted to tell the story of Psalms 23. I found three watercolor paintings that had a similar vibe: great texture with vibrant colors.<\/p>\n

I used Adobe Photoshop to blend the three images to form one landscape painting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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BEFORE<\/h3>\n

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Watercolor Paintings by AlexGreenArt<\/p>\n

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AFTER<\/h3>\n

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Illustration by Rosie Brooks<\/p>\n

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“Life is like a box of Chocolates…”<\/h1>\n

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I found a cartoon of a girl, happily enjoying a box of chocolates.\u00a0 This cartoon inspired me to use the pieces of chocolates to hold a memory of the character’s life. The box holds yummy chocolate (aka good memories), bittersweet chocolates (aka memories of difficult times), and even disgusting flavors (aka bad memories.)<\/p>\n

The box represents the characters life and she will eat all the good and bad chocolates as they are hers. It shows self-satisfaction and content of one’s life.<\/p>\n

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Final Drafts<\/h1>\n

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Mockups<\/h1>\n

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