A Date With Death
Book, Art Direction, Digital Illustration and Collage.
Academic project for UTS: Insearch
Year: 2017 (redesigned 2023)
A memento mori in the form of a book that indexes the random and interesting ephemera I personally engaged with on the matter of death.
From cataclysmic anthems by The Clash to the Buddhist monks that sacrifice themselves in the name of their nation as well as humbling teachings by Marcus Aurelius and Ernest Becker about the transitory nature of life; this compendium foregoes a riverboat journey to our visual and material culture with death. It is a project that embraces the spectrum of human reactions to the notion of it; all the different shades of grey that culminate between the seemingly black-and-white nature of life and death.
Bound between the pages is a visual experience of our long history with it and its timeless camraderie with our past, present and future.
A Date with Death is a summative reminder that our mortality is an inescapable blueprint etched into our fate as soon as we are born.
