Now I have a clear plan for my project. My idea for the final project was to create a series of illustrations that shows the mythologies from all over the world that has similar themes, symbols and ect. But because I didn’t want to directly illustrate the mythologies, I had to motify my idea.

Therefore, now the new idea I have for my final project is to create a new mythology of the modern society that has the pattern that is found in the mythologies of different cultures of the world.

So the pattern I found was:

1. Heroes have unusual birth. (ex> Momotaro, Heracles, Park Hyuk-Gue-Se)
2. Heroes receives significant object before they go for their adventures. (ex> Momotaro’s Kibidango, Theseus’s shoes and ball of yarn, Perseus’s winged shoes and Athena’s shield ect)
3. Defeat the monsters.
4. Get wealth/fame/honor/Princess.
5. Happy ending vs. bad ending. (Perseus and Odysseus had happy endings, but Jason, Oedipus, and Bellerophon had bad endings, despite the fact that they all had to go through the first 4 steps very similarly.)

So now, I am going to apply this rules to my hero.

Before I start, I want to think about the message of my myth. Mythology is usually a metaphor of a issues in reality (ex> the sea monster that Odysseus had to fight was a metaphor for the dangerous tide and conditions of that part of the ocean.). So, that is the moster my hero has to fight?

Also, who is my hero? I decided to let my hero represent the life of art students. The monster he has to fight is the problems and fears that the artists has to fight, and the special gift that the hero receives will be the creativity amd the media the artists use, becuse creating art is our method of fighting our problems(monsters).

One of the method of modern story telling is through comic. Comic books are our own mythology of the modern society in a sense. Therefore, I want to create my illustrations with ink pen, like the comic book artists usually do. (but my illustrations won’t be like a page of a comic book. It will be a series of scenes)

For my in class field trip, I want to interview some Massart students so I can decide the form of the monster. What are we, the artists, fighting? and what are we fighting for?