2022
Boom Boom, Boom Boom
Boom Boom is a picture book about the exploration of nature through a game form, which is supplemented with a room projection exploration device to create an immersive experience of natural dream utopia.
Based on my survey and research on the influence of nature and games on the human body and mind in the current era, I have established the original intention of creating a picture book on the theme of nature's healing effect on humans, with the moving game line as the form of the book.
By extracting the elements of natural plants and nocturnal animals, I drew an original picture book story about an insomnious child who is attracted by strange sounds to explore the dark forest. The whole picture book story takes the onomatopoeic word "boom boom, boom boom" as the clue, which is also the title of the book. In the book, the protagonist keeps searching for the source of this sound and enters the dark world. Draped in a quilt, he leaves his bed with caution and enters the dark forest. Along the way, he gets to know many animal friends. Finally, he puts down his guard and falls into sleep in the forest. "boom boom, boom boom" runs throughout the book, appears in different positions on each page, and determines the direction of page turning. The change of the page turning direction constantly leads the reader. Page turning can be fast or slow, and forward or backward, thus forming rhythm and becoming a game. "Page turning" is itself "exploration".
As for painting material, I chose dry gouache to create texture and depict every detail, hoping to match the artistic conception of pure forest through painting and acquire the same simplistic shocking and healing power of nature.