Miniature publication for the short story - The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman explores a woman’s mental decline under enforced isolation and the oppressive “rest cure.” Forbidden from creative expression, the narrator fixates on the wallpaper, eventually identifying with a trapped woman she imagines within it and tearing it down in a symbolic act of rebellion.
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Brief
This project involved creating and designing a mini publication using 1,500 words from a copyright-free text. The publication needed to incorporate four or more elements that worked together cohesively to offer a fresh and dynamic perspective.
explanation
The first impressions of the enclose will use transparent paper, to reveal the title of the book symbolizing something hidden beneath. This is both a clear correlation to the creeping women and a metaphor for her forced concealment of emotions, causing her insanity.
The increasing scale of the publication pages express the attitudes of her husband and misunderstanding of her mental illness, portraying a feeling of growing entrapment.
Blurred imagery and transparent paper represent her mind becoming disorientated. The wallpaper begins to blur into her only existence and main purpose of her life. Varying sized text boxes and cropped images push this feeling of a broken mind and the clash between reality and her insanity.
explanation
The main imagery in the classic reboot features variations of my self-made yellow paintings, depicting the chaotic growth of the Yellow Wallpaper. These paintings reflect the narrator's manic fixation due to isolation, symbolizing her mental collapse as her perception shifts from dislike to disgust and finally to a disturbing connection with the wallpaper.
