6 - memory book

Book of life/Day of memory – how did you get here?

Read the chapter of Einstein’s Dreams that talks about a Book of Life and memory. Swap self-portraits with a classmate and create a short Book of Life for yourself that explains how you got here – either here physically, mentally or emotionally – or all three.

Make sure that you have at least 6 entries/pages/images for this book. You can make a story-board or a comic strip, you can make 6 different pages and bind it like a book. Feel free to piece your images together on a different surface. The only size constraint: it can’t be printed on a traditional sized paper; 11x17, legal or letter. This is a pretty open assignment; you can use text if you’d like—whatever you do is fine as long as there are 6 different images, one of which is the portrait you got from a classmate.

To paraphrase:

• You must have at least 6 entries/pages/images for this book
• This book must be physical – it cannot be viewed on a classroom monitor
• It cannot be printed on a traditional sized paper: 11x17, legal or letter
• It can be black & white or color – whatever you want
• If you can figure a way to use the illustrator images in another media, feel free to do so (ie, printing image to use as a pattern for cut cloth/quilt project)
• You must use images from classmates—only one can be your own self-portrait

You must significantly alter all borrowed portraits