Transformation: Final
The final product after my experimentations was all by chance where everything I had done was all for the first time. My first idea was to transform into a lantern with fairy tale cut outs placed into the windows of the box, which would ultimately be able to project the story onto walls. I was inspired by the artists Harikrishnan Panicker & Deepti Nair, Illuminated Paper Cut Shadow Boxes. Their works consisted of depicting famous animated movie scenes that when lit up in the dark, the story was brought to light. I used normal printing paper to create the scene, as paper is simple as a medium but it is able to reflect and contrast light. Towards the end of my experimentations, I had realised that the shadows casted off from the lights were from the cut outs itself, not of random shapes and lines (which I had thought would’ve happened). In the end, I wanted my viewers to be able to journey and imagine themselves in a setting similar to the fairy tale and that the final work will have a strange but playful impression left on them.
