Final Project – A Narrative:

For my final project, I wanted to focus on a narrative around my daughter who is a writer. For her bachelor’s essay she is writing a creative short story set in Ireland. My idea was to show her creativity at work. In the first scene she is writing on her laptop and the page flies off her computer towards a door that is opening into the world of fairies. She puts her computer down and walks through the door and is joined by the fairy that has beckoned her in. From here the fairy takes her on adventure through the land and flying over rivers. At the end of the journey, they enter the fairy house and back through the pathway to our world.

For my process, I used both Illustrator and Photoshop. A combination of stock photos, for the Irish lands, and photos I took of my daughter and real-world surroundings were composited together in Photoshop. I created the paper airplanes, fairies, and butterflies in Illustrator and brought them over into the composites to add an element of imagination and fun – which is always reflects my daughters’ stories.