For my project, I am going to create a book. Each page will have a different contortion pose corresponding to a letter in the alphabet. It will also become stickers so the poses could spell out different words. I am planning on having each photo done in the same style so it flows as a visual language. I’m still debating on doing black and white or color. My influences for this project was the artist Cindy Sherman and how she creates different costumes for each of her photographs. The idea of her transforming into different people is really interesting to me, and I was inspired by that idea in regards to my own life. My ideas for the different poses were inspired by snakes and the concept of transformation. Influences for the piece were inspired by multimedia artists like Erika Lemay and Cindy Sherman, whos work has themes of transformation. The title of the book is “Alphabet”. The piece explores how see the body and how it can be changed through contortion. The reason I chose this idea was because I believe that through contortion, the body twisting and turning into seemingly unnatural poses challenges the viewer to redefine what they believe is possible. I think this enforces the idea behind creating a “new” form of an alphabet that the viewer then has to use to make words. 