Project info
- Developer Natalia Rapala
- Showcase year 2022
- Programme Computer Arts
Synopsis
This is a silent book, showing parts of the everyday struggles people with disfigurement experience in their lives because of stereotype, misinformation, lack of normalisation and fair representation. The book ‘silently’ follows the development of a girl with facial disfigurement towards self-acceptance, which can be tricky for everyone, specially in a society controlled by media. A silent book is a book that has little or no words, and has been chosen as a genre for this project as these issues still don’t have a proper voice.
Finding yourself - A Positive Disfigurement Representation
An illustrated book following the struggles of a girl with facial disfigurement, aiming to raise awareness, normalisation and show a better way to represent people with disfigurement in a positive light.
Credits
"Finding yourself - A positive disfigurment representation" is a 2022 Digital Graduate Show project by Natalia Rapala, a Computer Arts student at Abertay University.
Project Motivation
Raise awareness and open a path towards normalising the representation of physical traits that are considered socially 'undesirable'.
