Print Series/Artist Book

Intro./Artist Statement
The project seemed like quite a challenge at first.
Creating a print from seven random words is not easy.
But once I started it all sort of fell into place.

As I am not a pro in Photoshop,
the first print took a very long time to put together.
But by the third print, it was much easier.

The concept of the book is kind of odd
But it was not supposed to be so creepy.
Part of the fun of making it was that it was so different.

Words to Images.
(coming soon....)

Chapter 1.
There once was a sunflower field full of happy goats.
But one day the sky got dark and stormy.
A big mean goat wanted to control the field!

The little goats tried to hide in the sunflowers.
The big mean goat had a big scary knife.
The goats were frozen with fear!

All the goats ever wanted was their sunflower field.
They thought it would be theirs forever.
But the big goat decided it was HIS field!

Chapter 2.
The big mean goat made all the kids leave the sunflowers.
The big mean goat put a fence around the field.
They had to say goodbye to their home.

The little goats had nowhere to go.
They missed their sunflowers.
They were very sad.

All the little goats walked together.
They hoped they would find more sunflowers.
But they were lost and scared.

Chapter 3.
The big mean goat gave the little goats a choice.
They could live without their sunflowers.
Or they could die and become a sunflower.

Some of the little goats were afraid to die.
They decided to choose life.
These goats died of sadness.

The other goats chose to die.
Their heads were cut off and put on sunflower stalks.
Thus they were forever in a sunflower field.

Back Cover.
This series came together by itself.
After the first print, the second just made sense.
And the third print was a logical conclusion.

An accompanying children's book also made sense.
What kid does not love flowers and cute goats?
They just usually do not die at the end...

Two influences for this book, because of their kids' book style were
Night Crawlers on the Web by Johanna Drucker
and How to Humiliate Your Peeping Tom by Susan Baker.