Artist Book Source

Body Language
Human beings are very susceptible to body language. We subconsciously are able to read and understand messages of the body. Our bodies relate and react to different environments since it plays a major role in our everyday lives. We use our bodies to relate to other human beings physically, mentally, and emotionally. With or without words, we are able to sense what others may be truly feeling or thinking. Human beings are able to understand different messages based on specific notions people make everyday. For my project, I want to find a way to visually express the language of the human body.

I chose body language as my source because I want to study the difference in people in relation to others and the environment around them. I am interested in the different emotions, gestures, and expressions of human communication. For this project, I want to capture parts of the body that display anticipation, anxiousness, and the feeling of expecting something to arrive. I want the viewer to wonder what is happening, and what is going to happen. This way, the viewer can create his or her own situations by reading the limited information I’ve captured of the human body.

Through my artist’s book, I want my viewer to actively connect physically and mentally with my source. The front of the book will be a photo of empty seats on a train that are divided into three main sections that are going to be further divided into open flaps. Each flap with have an image of a gesture displaying the emotions I’ve mentioned earlier. As the viewer opens the book, he/she will slowly be overwhelmed by the various images of different gestures. The experience is suppose to resemble the same feeling as when one is waiting, and sitting on the train anticipating the different people coming on and off at each station. The more people who come onto the train, the more body language one is surrounded in. The form of the book also gives off an awkward feeling because it turns from a simple looking book to a non-traditional one, and the act of opening a book full of images displaying expression of nervousness may cause the viewer to feel the same way.