I spent the last year looking at empathy and the just world hypothesis. I am interested in creating children's books and want to learn more about the narratives we use to educate children. From my research last year I found that although many traditional narratives promote positive moral values they also lead to problems and may not be the best way to help us understand the world around us. My research up to this point has been based around theories that relate to storytelling which I think is a huge part of illustration but I would like to also explore the way we interpret our surroundings visually. As illustrators we are able to use commonly recognised preexisting symbols to help communicate with the viewer. Some of these symbols are so deeply ingrained on us that we see them in abstracted forms. We see faces in any number of objects, something as simple as 3 dots and a line can make a face if arranged in the right composition. I would like to know more about how this interpretation of our surroundings alters our view and what implications it has on illustration.
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