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It's been a while since I have updated my blog. Here is what I have been occupied with for the past couple while. For the past couple of months, during my spring semester, I have been trying to develop a character and a narrative to go with her fantasy world. I came up with this character named "Brick Girl". Brick Girl is a female adolescent figure who has a house for a head. Brick Girl says few things, as she is a silent sort of person. As emotions and thoughts unravel in her mind, they manifest themselves in the way that the interior space of her "house head" is arranged. The smaller versions of her that run inside her "house head" reflect her internal frame of mind.

The challenge in illustrating this character was how to use a consistent blueprint language to illustrate her mind. Within this (continued) obsession with Brick Girl, I incorporated her two of my classes this semester, to explore her figure and the concept of her world, that revolves around the interior space of her mind.

"Hyperballad" (2011)

This is an illustration for an assignment to illustrate an inspiring piece of text. I chose the musician, Bjork's song, "Hyperballad". In her song, the female protagonist detaches herself from her partner, fleeing the house that they live in, on top of a hill, to throw anything that she can find in her house, down the cliff. She takes enjoyment from watching the objects, like random car parts or cutlery, fall and crash at the bottom of the cliff. This makes her imagine her body in the same fate. As a daily routine, after she does this, she returns to her lover in her home, and goes on with her day, happily. 

To me, this song isn't a morbid song about suicidal thoughts. It's about being in a perfect relationship and stable relationship, and the need to remind yourself that you are alive. The action of throwing things off the cliff is an act of freedom, and sense of control. The notion of imagining oneself to fall and crash into the bottom of a cliff is another act of freedom. The freedom to control one's fate. Practicing this routine every morning, allows her to go on with her day, remembering that she is still herself. 

Using my interpretation of the song, I used Brick Girl as the protagonist in my illustration. The analogy of her mind being a house works perfectly in this concept. As she empties the contents of her house over the cliff, in a sense, she is purging and cleansing--practicing freedom. This daily act of "house cleaning"  allows her to be sane. The colour palette that I decided to go with reflect the early morning sunrise that the protagonist wakes up to. Here are two iterations that I did for the assignment, and the first scanned in drawing before I printed it out and painted on top, and put through photoshop again. The first image is the one that I handed in.