I found some old development for an old project I did back in 2013, a ‘Tatebanko' assignment for Frido Beisert’s creative strategies class.

Tatebanko is a Japanese diorama tradition that normally features historical or mythological scenes. I tried to honor that concept in my project by bringing form to an organism’s drive to live.

tatebanko, the japanese art of making paper dioramas pic.twitter.com/IGTHOtTzP7
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My favorite part of a project? Always the sketching and planning part. Thinking is meant to be ugly, and that’s the most beautiful thing about it. I love how the vellum crinkles as it’s layered on the page. I love seeing my iteration take up space in the book.

A scan of a sketchbook page featuring stacked drawings on layered sheets of vellum

Unfortunately the final product might be lost. But it was a nice project to remember, even if it maybe wasn't fun to work on it among all the other stressors going on that year.