This is part of my thesis research, I created the majority of illustrations and designed the layout for the book. The book's name is “of Cabbages and Kings: Analean”, written by Xillowushka. The book is an unpublished speculative fiction story of a girl named Analean, who wakes up in a world thousands of years in the future. Then, in her following adventures throughout time and space, she encounters gynoids, hagemons, vampires, cardinals, and cultivators. The formatting of the book is inspired by ergodic and Noveau Roman literature, which requires the readers to actively participate within the text, thereby creating their own experience. Instead of visualizing the text literally, I attempted to construct a coded interpretation of the material that I connected with in my own personal interaction with the book. Rather than being literal representations of what is in the text, merely, they are possible visual perceptions that one could have. In short, this thesis is an examination of the production of meaning through an audience’s interaction with art. Thusly, rather than the audience attempting to discern what the artist actually meant, it is left to the perceiver to discover or manufacture their own connections. For more details of the illustration, please move to the illustration section on my website.
