The Cycle of Life - Circle

Authors

Zehua Wu, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Publication Date

11-1-2014

Keywords

artists'books, Student Artists' Book Contest, first

Disciplines

Book and Paper

Student Status

Undergraduate student

Year of Graduation

2018

Major

Apparel Design

Faculty / Course

Leslie Hirst, Design

Materials + Techniques

Presentation board, drawing paper, marker, ink

Student Narrative

This artist book combines realistic illustrations of life with their corresponding symbols observed from daily life. The whole book starts and ends with a circle symbolizing the cycle of life, while the shape of the book is an imperfect circle representing the variety of life. It illustrates the lowest levels of life in the world to more complex organisms like the plants, the animals and the human beings. Not only is each character connected naturally by the food chain but also by the eternal continuity of life. This artist book has a simple arrangement with various ways of presentation. It has no end and no beginning.

Recommended Citation

Wu, Zehua; Library, Fleet; and Collections, Special, "The Cycle of Life - Circle" (2014). 1st Student Artists' Book Contest 2015. 42.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookcontest1st2015/42