Ideas

My purpose with this piece was to depict the experience of immersing yourself within fiction media, such as picture storybooks, as a young child. Thus, I decided to format the whole piece like a storybook page, initially deciding to put it within a book (still undecided about that), including a crease in the center to indicate it is a frequently used book, a 2 large, square page format, inked outlines, and fancy lettering of the common “Once upon a time…” story beginning. The dragonfly is meant to represent the reader and how they identify themselves with the characters of the media they consume, becoming what they consume. In contrast, I chose dragons and a dragonfly, to reveal how people also identify with characters because they see themselves in them. The dragonfly is radiating light to show how the reader is the one who brings stories to life through their imagination as they “fly in” to the world they read about.