This is an Artist book that I made for my design class, and I am absolutely in love with it!
It's an exploration of the shape of my life, and how much of it is due to conscious decisions/actions (design) and how much is just blind chance (destiny). I believe that my life is neither completely in my control nor completely out of my control. It's a little bit of chance and a little bit of choice.
I made the doll out of muslin and embroidered on the face and the bones. The dress, a copy of another doll dress, is made out of silk-ish polyester, and burn-hemmed.
The book is watercolour paper painted with gouache cut into organ shapes. I added tiny tarot cards, mesh, beads, drawings and embroidery.
In astrology, all of the signs relate to specific areas of the body. For example, Cancer (me) relates to the stomach and the breasts. Each page in the book is an organ and one of its related zodiac animals and tarot cards . The minor arcana (cups, wands, pentacles and swords) of the tarot all relate to specific zodiac signs, for example, cups represent the water signs (cancer, scorpio, and pisces). I chose some of the cards intuitively and some deliberately. Each card is related to the zodiac sign it is placed with. Some of the cards describe things that have happened in my life while some represent things I want/ am working towards.
I don't necessarily believe in astrology or tarot, but I think the imagery is interesting.
