This is my final interpretation of Da Silva's work

screen print on sugar paper

The final book cover.

Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva - The corridor

The second project was

about interpreting an artist's work.

I chose Maria Helena Vieria Da Silva's the corridor, a painting made in 1950.

I liked her brutal deconstruction of space into fragments and her purely

abstract visual language. Here is one of her quotes in order to understand her approach to work:

-"Perspective captivate

d me to succeed in encapsulating

a whole space on a small piece of canvas"-

This sequence shows the progress of my final collage. I deconstructed photographs of Da Silva's life and reassembled them to a new abstract composition, corres

ponding to one of her major quotes, which states:

-" I acquire my learning, my knowledge, by tying threads together,

piece by piece, constantly adding more until there is

a knot inside me."-

In order to approach and translate the significance of what she saw, she

simplified, unified and even warped and distorted structure. Throughout her work o

ne get the idea that in

direct means are more effective in capturing the essential character of the se

en and thus she created a kind of personal alphabet from the external aspects of

the world around her.

Objects became signs, and with the repetition of

those she created her own visual language.

My first project of the second year of my Graphic and Media Design BA with the pathway Typo/Graphics at LCC was about designing a ma

gazine. I designed the first edition of the magazine'Grafikkraft'. I chose the name as it is a quite expressive German word that should explain my very own approach towards Graphic design.

What you see here are the two sides of my magazine. It looks confusing as the final magazine layout follows a folding technique. For that reason there are some parts (pages) up side down.

This is the actual magazine.

I read the book 'The Naked Ape' written by the zoologist Desmond Morris in 1967 and was inspired by its thought provoking content. As a result I questioned my own point of view on human race, modern civilisation and its origin.

One of my favourite statements in this book is the following:

-"You are a member of the most extraordinary animal species

that has ever lived on this planet.

Understand your animal nature and accept it!"-

I am very interested into this topic as it covers subjects of science, nature, philosophy as well as science-fiction. At this stage I really want to investigate more into this approach towards our own species.

Who are we?

Where did we come from?

Where are we going to?

Who do we think we are?

What makes us different?

What makes us so superior but also so primitive?