Kaho Suzuki | Japan
This is the final product of my master’s project that explores ways of storytelling without words and the social value of illustration. The “TRANSITION” is a silent book, that is, a picture book that the story is told only with illustrations. All illustrations are drawn digitally. Through this project, I aimed to discover “a story worth telling with illustrations.”
The story relates to the issue of “uniform society” and “majority and minority.” It tells how a man who moved to a city becomes “anonymous” in their society. There are many different visual clues in the images, and they challenge the reader’s visual literacy, imagination, and experiences. In other words, it might change into different stories depending on how he/she interprets them. Also, the story has no specific ending, and the reader would create it freely.
This book would apply to a wide variety of readers because of the absence of words, but it specifically targets young adults.
Education:
Faculty of Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Master in Visual Communication
Graduation: 2022