A PIED BEAUTY
This project was centered after a poem titled “A Pied Beauty” written by Gerald Manley Hopkins. The main theme behind the poem is how everything around us is perfectly imperfect, yet beautiful in every which way. None of us necessarily know how things came to be, or how to look, or how we interpret them - they just exist like so.
I switch each scene from being a landscape, and then switching to something that you would find deeper within that scene, and each page alternates. I found inspiration in Japanese style houses and buildings, as well as landscapes. Each landscape correlates with the close up of each scene, and the color scheme also correlates with each two pages as well. I wanted to explore gradients (one of my favorite things, as well as color) which was also a huge part of this project. Each scene has many layers within, and is indented to display nature in how I would interpret it. I use Koi fish, humming birds, and moths as characters within nature to explain how things are so different within their making, yet beautiful.
