For my animation, I focused on the themes of female innocence, mystery, and death. However, as kept working, I realized that the innocence could represent innocence in general, not only that of females. To tie innocence with mystery, I … Continue reading
The three motifs I used in my collage are longing, desire, and life. My background image*, which is a cityscape/landscape with clouds blocking the sun, represents longing. To me, the sun (and the city) seemed very far away from … Continue reading
My animation (click to play): Or click here The main focus of my animation is the idea of a social ladder in Kovaloff’s society along with the confusion and absurdity conveyed in Gogol’s story “The Nose.” My animation starts off … Continue reading
My animation is centered on the ideas of greed and mystery. In the story, Major Kovaloff is a victim of his own false pride and delusional ego. The series of events that follow is due to two tragedies: Kovaloff’s failure … Continue reading
For my creative project animation, I decided to focus on the theme of social class and hierarchy. In Gogol’s The Nose, Kovaloff awakes one morning without his nose and desperately tries to hide his loss to avoid social humiliation. Throughout the … Continue reading
My creative project focuses on the theme of identity. Throughout Gogol’s “The Nose,” the characters’ identities seem to be derived from their appearances and how the rest of society perceives them. For instance, Kovaloff identifies the nose as a highly … Continue reading
My gif represents my accumulated frustrations when I read “The Nose”. The cartoon breaking the pencil and the frustration sign are references to the annoyance I felt. The background filled with random letter characters is the confusion I experienced when … Continue reading
