Sophia Qin
Artist + Designer
Featured Page in
Book
Background
One of the pages inside the Female Oppression book needed editing. I thought I had a good concept of putting a piece of paper to hide elements of the image behind it stir feelings of irony; however, the final page was not fully realized. I sought to improve this page.
I sketched a bunch of covers, wrote down words and opposites, researched child labor, and looked for inspiration around me. First, I thought of doing a piece that criticized companies for using child labor, but then it was too harsh.
I then came up with the idea of hiding the horrible working conditions from the Lewis Hine photo by cutting out the girl’s figure and a flower on the white cover. When you pull back the cover, you see the reality of the girl’s demise, but when you put back the cover, you see what she should actually be doing-- picking flowers.
Ideation
Prototyping
I created the cover by overlaying the white piece of paper on top of the image on the light box so I could easily trace the silhouette of the girl. I then proceeded to cut the silhouette with her holding a flower. I retrieved brown thread from my book project and sewed the two pages together.
