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Alternative outcome idea: animation draft 

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Alternative outcome idea: animation draft 

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A very rough animation, figuring out the pacing and movement of the events. It depicts the character finding a sprouting potato and going to bite it, but changes their mind and takes a closer look instead. As the sprout approaches the character’s eye it pierces it, sending sprouting vines through their body, entangling with their heart, lungs, and bloodstream. Eventually it reaches the character’s brain, turning it into a vessel, where it then reaches out and continues its cycle, looking for another host.

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Pitch: Exploring my own personal aversions via a book/ animation, and/or large-scale drawings, with the aim of communicating the true feeling of disgust while also discovering the core reasons for these aversions.

Visual ideas: Abstract, jarring, subversive images. Chaotic. Zooming into things through the lens of disgust, emphasising the abnormalities, textures, and "movement" that causes the feelings of repulsion. Ink, felt-tip, thick acrylic. Integrated photography, heavy/ experimental editing. Overlapping. Parallels.

Main Aims:

﻿﻿to communicate the feeling of repulsion effectively: I want to focus on the "movement" and parasitic nature I see in things such as pepper seeds

﻿﻿to figure out why I find certain things disgusting and utilise this to make more reactive and engaging images

﻿﻿face my fears and find the beauty in the things I'm disgusted by

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What disgusts me?

Peppers (inside): too many seeds, too hollow, dark open space, too fluffy on the white part. baby peppers growing inside big pepper. So many seeds.

﻿﻿Aubergines: tiny seeds

﻿﻿Honeycomb: holes, hard hollow crispy texture. Sticky

Woodlice: the underside is nauseating, they curl up, dry looking, shelly.

﻿﻿Partings/ scalps: I can't explain this one

﻿﻿Hair on dolls: like the scalp thing. Too many holes where the hair is

﻿﻿Mold: fluffy scary looks like it'll infect me

﻿﻿When a fridge grows "snow" at the back of it: looks like a growth. Reminds me of fungal parasites.

﻿﻿Spores threatening fungi: pls don't infect me (couldn't get through The Last of Us for obv reaons)

﻿﻿Glitches in video games/tv/audio: makes me extremely uneasy to the point of disgust

Pores: too many holes

Bread or chips with air bubbles
Sprouts on potatoes etc: it's the fungus thing again. Its too alive. I fear it'll infect me.

Slugs: if I think about them too much I start (involuntarily) imagining what it’s like to eat them. Same with other bugs sometimes

Spiders: spindly, fast.

Tumours and stuff: my dog had a tumour and I couldn't look directly at it because it would make me extremely

uncomfortable and nauseous. Sorry Misty.

﻿﻿Flat discs i.e on the bottom of garlic, or on frogs heads

﻿﻿Flapjacks: dry. Nauseating. Even the word.

Blueberry muffins: look like mold, smells sickly. Don't know how people stand them

﻿Crispy cheese: dry, sickly, weird.

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Opposites:

﻿Growth / decay

﻿Fluffy / firm

﻿﻿hollow / full

﻿﻿Sticky/ slimy

﻿﻿Thick / spindly

﻿﻿Hairy / smooth

﻿﻿Fresh / mouldy

﻿﻿Too much / too little

﻿﻿Aversion / attraction

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I started to become stuck on what to illustrate beyond the mutant food creatures, so i created some pieces of writing to generate more ideas and construct a potential narrative.

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Exploring parallels between human body parts and food

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Investigating the link between disgust and vulgarity

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Looking at texture

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After experimenting with both narrative-based and abstract imagery, I decided to create this book as a collection of artworks based on the theme of disgust, rather than follow a linear, structured narrative. This allowed me more freedom in my image-making, and meant I could explore my ideas surrounding the subject in more depth. This would also lend itself to the chaotic, jumbled nature of the feelings disgust evokes, further communicating the idea.

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All sketches, studies, and illustrations 

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All sketches, studies, and illustrations 

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All photos taken by me, except for two photos found in a book