Working on Tails!
Nadeem and I received a SURG (Small Undergraduate Research Grant) to work on a project called tails. Our objective is to represent the world’s cultures through a set animals that are significant to the geographical regions of those cultures. Each animal would be crafted to visually portray the materials and the personality of their assigned culture while still maintaining a cohesive appearance. This approach would give people, especially children a glimpse of the similarities and differences in the world around them. Animals are without preconceived political associations and they provide a medium children would want to interact and play with. These interactions will be the building blocks to a cultural knowledge which can be enriched through zoos, museums, books and travel.
After deciding on 12 culture to focus on, we started doing research on each culture and creating image boards for all of them.
