FINAL STATEMENT

Taking the time to think about how to communicate something visually makes for a very insightful learning experience. It stimulates one's creativity, making you stretch your mind in order to think of new things. Using the dots, as we did at first, to communicate a specific word was a healthy way to stimulate the mind.

Using the same method of communicating with the words was a very similar exercise.

It was interesting to see how everything started to come together after deciding on what materials and imagery to use. With so many possibilities at hand, it was - at times - a difficult task to choose whether to go one way or the other.

It is a satisfying experience to look at the final product. Flipping through the book and seeing the composition of the transparencies over the composition of the dots with imagery lets me really appreciate the serendipitous aspects of the book.

No project is ever really finished. When you finally decided that a project actually is finished, you start to realize all of the other things that you should have done. With my book, I realized that I should have used the paper that I used with the imagery as the paper of the actual pages. The paper that was used for the imagery was hand died, and manipulated in such a way that it would look old. with the richness in color and texture, it would have made the book as a whole a more interesting product.