Folktale for the Future: Flood Story

Date

2020

Collection

UAL Art Collection

Creator(s)

Amelia D. H Tovey

Code

UAC 995

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Amelia D H Tovey studied BA Graphic Communication Design at CSM. She says:

'Exploring questions such as ‘What stories will future generations be telling about us in the context of climate crisis?’, this piece combines an international selection of folktales to create a new narrative prop that exists within a ‘SolarPunk’ future – in which the climate crisis was resolved from collective action. The images made in this book were created from collagraph prints using recycled materials as I explored environmental methods of image-making that can be taken forward into future design practices. This book is designed to be so large and so heavy that one person alone struggles to read it, requiring a community of readers; much like humanitarian and environmental issues rely on collective action.