My final Integrating Activity project will be done through creative writing and visual art, since they are the two mediums I have explored most throughout my studies. I also think they are very conductive forms of storytelling. They can help dive into the biggest and smallest details of a story and help visualise it in the best way possible. As such, I will be writing a series of three vignettes, and each will be accompanied by a visual element. 

 

Through this project, I intend to explore the way objects represent us, and how our interests, our hardships, our relationships define who we are. How our identity influences our choices, but also how our possessions influence us. These possessions are, in a way, an extension of ourselves, and through them, strangers can get a glimpse of who we are. The series will be titled “What we leave behind,” as a reference to this relationship between an outsider, an object, and us. 

 

I will use the skills I developed in creative writing workshop classes to write a series of text vignettes exploring different characters through the perspective of a stranger finding an object they left behind. I will use different writing techniques learned from the analysis of pre-existing works I learned in literature classes to explore the themes and characters in the best way possible. It will be a chance for me to practice consolidating all the lessons and advice I received in this program. Through worldbuilding and characterization, I also intend to explore further my own propensity for details and making a scene feel real to the reader. This project will also be a good opportunity to explore the theme of time, a personal favourite and one I use often in my own work, in its many forms. 

 

This project will also require me to use skills I have developed in drawing classes, since the visual element that will accompany the text will be my own sketches. I will use drawing techniques I have practiced during my studies to produce little illustrations for each of the vignettes, as a way to emphasise the importance of the objects to the theme of identity. 

 

The final product will be presented electronically, and though the drawings will be made ‘traditionally’ by hand, they will be digitized and collaged with the text. It will be available on my Integrating Activity website.

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SCHEDULE 

March 10 to 24 - Brainstorming ideas

March 24 to April 14 - Writing first drafts 

April 14 - Work in progress presentation

April 14 to 21 - Revision

April 21 to 28 - Making the illustrations and assembling

May 5 - In class presentation and critique 

 

REQUIRED MATERIAL

Drawing supplies (graphite, ink, paper, etc) and watercolours, photoshop, and writing software (e.g. Google doc). I already have everything in my possession.