I did some initial research in the college, our tutor gave us some ideas of what other classes were doing. One being a student who re-designed a book based on football, by folding and cutting the pages in such a way that when you open the book it looks like a football. On hearing this idea I decided I would like to redesign my book in a way that fitted the context of the books theme.
The next step: we walked to a charity shop close by and purchased cheap books. The book I purchased was titled Warrior Woman and was about a woman of asian descent growing up in the west amongst stereotypes combining martial arts and anyone of asian descent. This stereo types seems to have almost become a self fulfilling prophecy for this woman.
I cut the shape of a gun into the front half of the book so as to frame it, the title warrior woman still showing. I stopped cutting the shape of the gun on a chapter with a name I deemed very relevant to the books context, the chapter was entitled Western Palace. At this point I stopped cutting so the name of the chapter appears at the front. Finally, I decided the art work on the front of the book which I had already cut out was too good to leave out. I cut out an area below the chapters title through maybe 30 pages or so in the shape of a square, this way I could glue the artwork into the bottom page and allow it to be framed by the remainder of the 30 pages above I had already cut out.
At this point I was happy with the result, I stapled all of the remaining pages together and completed my work, I was happy with the result and felt I had embodied the main crux of the book in it's physical reformation.
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