Study Task 1 - About the Author Zine

One of the feedback comments was 'Seems a bit rushed?'
The zine was definitely rushed towards as I was adding the texts in on the deadline day morning.

The zine has some consistency in it's aesthetic and colour use, using bright pink against the black.
The guideline was to not think too hard about the zine and I didn't so it was nice to be loose and make 'bad' work in a funny way.

I used the task as a test for the pink on black combination which always has positive feedback.

Using a single, bold colour with black really helps me visualise an image and appeals to me personally so I want to gradually develop this colour technique in more subtle, refined ways.

One thing I found with such a short deadline I reverted back to using collage to quickly get the ideas across. I often don't consider my rough sketches as anything other than preparations if I'm using a refined traditional media for the finished work. Maybe that's why I used collage instead.

About the Author - Oliver Sacks - locations and Bio/quotes

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/30/oliver-sacks-dies-aged-82-eminent-neurologist-author-awakenings

Locations

New York Hospitals/Wards
Botanical Gardens, New York
Natural History museum
Swimming/New York bay



“I am very tenacious, for better or worse,” he wrote in “A Leg to Stand On.” “If my attention is engaged, I cannot disengage it. This may be a great strength, or weakness. It makes me an investigator. It makes me an obsessional.”

'He was also a man of contradictions: candid and guarded, gregarious and solitary, clinical and compassionate, scientific and poetic' nytimes

“I love to discover potential in people who aren’t thought to have any,” he told People magazine in 1986.

Sacks seemed to be very much a thinking person; asking big questions with a philosophical approach.

He was a clumsy/ not very practical person

“I lost samples,” he told an interviewer in 2005. “I broke machines. Finally they said to me: ‘Sacks, you’re a menace. Get out. Go see patients. They matter less.’ ”