My Story in a Booklet - Using Continuous Line

'A line is a dot that went for a walk' - Paul Klee

I first heard this quote and had to really think about it before I fully appreciated what it meant. It makes so much sense. A dot finishes a story, a line can make the story. The task was to fill an A6 sketchbook in just a few hours. At first I thought that this simply could not be done, however once I got in to it, I found it went quite well.

To begin with I worked in quite a simple way as, to a stranger, my ring would be just a simple object. As the booklet progressed the drawings represented the deeper meaning behind my ring, that someone would only know if they were told. I look at this book as one drawing, a drawing that flows between all the pages, and represents the constant flow of the story of the ring. To do this, all the drawings were produced by one continuous line that travelled through the whole booklet. 

I especially like the deep personal meaning behind this page. A big theme throughout the booklet was circles, the obvious reason being that my keepsake was a ring. For this page I began to draw swirls all over. To begin with this simply represented the ring, however as I continued it reminded me of my Grandmother's and my own naturally curly hair. Out of the family we are the only two that share naturally curly hair. This sets us apart from the rest of the family as to them, we are unique.

Completing this task was very interesting as I thought more about my keepsake than I had before, and found an even deeper meaning to it.