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Show COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS CAMUS-REBUS-US / ARTIST BOOK Tyler Bloomquist (Maureen O'Hara Ure) Department of Art & Art History University of Utah For my UROP project, I a m visually interpreting the short, philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus, written by Albert Camus. The completion of this U R O P project is a fifteen-page artist book in an edition of five. M y goal with this project is to experiment with the way a viewer reads and m a y interpret the printed content, and to create a collection of universal symbols and icons that, in combination, --creates a consistently understood narrative. In our daily lives, we oscillate between various ways of reading, interpreting and understanding the worldly content around us. This visual landscape provides an array of icons, symbols, colors, gestures, light, and noise and, of course, text. This daily process, this navigation, is where the inspiration for this project is derived from. I also draw influence from the evolving experiences that a reader n o w has with new technology, such as the iPad or Kindle. These n e w platforms allow the content of a book to behave in a reactive manner with the viewer, which creates a more engaging and personal reading experience. The main content of this book will be text-free. A collage of icons, symbols, drawings and photography will serve as the content, each illustrating a small part of essay. Many variables can affect our interpretations, such as the lighting of a photograph, the line weight of a drawing or h o w certain shade of feels compared to another shade.These small variables can quickly add up and m a y completely alter the interpretations by the reader.The challenge here is to find images and icons that have universal meaning in order to-> communicate the story in Camus's essay. Another point of concern is to create a familiar reading experience for viewer of the book. Without text, a viewer could easily get confused and not know where to start or presume the book is just a picture book. By setting up a rhythm of specific icons throughout the book, a wayfinding system is created. Similar to navigation systems found on websites or apps, this system allows the viewer to navigate the content without getting lost and gives the viewer a frame of reference in interpreting the other elements in the book. The success of this project rests on the careful selection and combination of interpretive elements and the distillation of those elements d o w n to their most universal meaning. Maureen O'Hara Ure |
