My 2020 Process Book - Trailer - Michael Russell

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"My 2020 Process Book" by Michael Russell
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Project Statement:
Making books is a passion I discovered in high school when I created an issue of our school’s literary arts magazine. Since then, the breadth of my creative outlets grew to involve 3D modeling, digital art, printmaking, and more. For this project I wanted to synthesize my many different interests into one large scale project involving many different mediums, eventually culminating in a book. I got off to a rough start with this though; my transition to online learning was claustrophobic when I counted on the adrenaline of running across campus to get to classes, the xerox machine, the dining hall, anything. Sitting down puts me in a do-nothing headspace which exacerbated the slowness with which I completed coursework, and I couldn’t shake all these doubts forming in my mind. In going through this struggle, I decided to use these events as fuel for the content of my book. The images connect my internal monologue to the tangible events unfolding in front of me, as well as the state of the places I spent significant time in. The book is divided into 12 months which serve as chapters to present the viewer with a snapshot of myself at different points in time within the last year. My goal is to overwhelm the book with symbols, messages, and dates (ACE chapter titles stand for "After Common Era") to have the reader interpret the content according to their own experiences. Hopefully, this will mean readers have a much different perspective of the content than anyone else, as apposed to traditional books which make efforts to communicate specific concepts. As I often get misunderstood, I chose to dig deeper into my feelings rather than adjust them in order for it to make sense for everyone, and have it just reflect my own way of communicating what I see.

github.uconn.edu/pages/mfr15102/Process_Book_Display/
github.uconn.edu/pages/mfr15102/Senior_Website/

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in Digital Media and Design at the University of Connecticut.

Senior Project Advisor
Dennis Recchia, Dan Pejril

Michael Russell © 2021

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