Flip Book Animations. Project 1

For my art and technology course, we were assigned a flip book animation. For my project I de-contextualized a book called an unquiet mind by Kay Redfield Jamison. On the pages of this book I drew a root which grew and took on a face and arms. It then eats a mushroom that it pick right next to itself, and then the pupils dialate, and a expression of revelation and aww comes and goes, ending with the words Narnia fading in and out on the pages.

I thought this was particularly ironic considering Jamisons book was about manic depressiveness which is a serious problem for some people. And some psychological effects of magic mushrooms can be compared to extreme euphoria and down waves of depression and or confusion. Jamison is considered a brilliant mind has won awards for her book, and most of this she says is attributed to her manic depressiveness. What I was trying to convey with the mushroom eating was that people have different ways of being inspired and enlightened, and I believe that there is a strong correlation between what Jamison has learned from her expereinces with Manic depressive, and mind altering effects of some psychedelics.