"Allt berättar" was my graduation project from Konstfack in 2015. In four illustrated books, I was exploring ways to work with the components of an illustrated book, to examine the creative process and to let the components be integral in the storytelling.
Liten (Small)
A book where I use the format to amplify the story - about a small person who is hiding in a small space, and finds her self shrinking.
She was hiding although she was so small she was barely visible
Once upon a time, there was a small one.
How come there wasn't enough space for such a small person?
Ett två tre (One two three)
A book using ink drawings as a starting point of creating a story.
When I kept adding pictures and words, it turned out as a surreal story about a person going out to the woods, to dig her self up from the ground, over and over again.
Öppna (Open)
In this book I tried to make the flickering of the pages play a role in the storytelling. When the character in the book opens the window, we also turn the page, and the story takes a new turn.
Allt är som vanligt (Everything is as usual)
A book in which I wanted to experiment with the relation between text and image, and how we value read them. The story tells about a meeting between two people. The text has one message, the image another. Which of them should we trust?
Pictures from the exhibition at Konstfack College of Arts and Crafts
Each book presented on a podium, with a color corresponding with a line on the wall.
Sketches and dummies of the four books and other stories that I chose not to complete. My different starting points for the stories are written on the left.