Week Two - #4

My project proposal was all about visualizing history in a way that was both visually rich and informationally accurate. I wanted to find a balance between literature and images. I did this because I often feel like images without text as well as all text-based history is hard to contextualize. So for this project I want to make a portrait of a fairy while also adding text to explain the specifics of her story. I wanted to include this text as part of the art instead of just including it on an informational plaque in a museum because I feel that those plaques do a disservice and people often focus on them too much and avoid looking at the image. I also wanted to do this because I hate when I find it hard to understand a piece of art’s purpose.

I created this type face of both lowercase and title case letters based on medieval manuscripts I have been reviewing over the last semester. At this point I am envisioning putting these letters on my portrait in gold leaf.