Fantastical Beings is a graphic adaptation of the paper, ‘Why Mammals are called Mammals? Gender Politics in Eighteenth Century Natural History’ by Dr. Londa Schiebinger. It talks about how the classification of mammals and inclusion of humans in the class is influenced by the cultural view of breasts, women and animals. As shared by Dr. Schiebinger, the term still exists Post-Darwinian Revolution.
This project was made possible with the support of the British Council through the Creating Heroines Grant.
Team:
Concept, direction, and storyboarding: Komal Jain
Visual Styling and image sourcing: Komal Jain and Ritika Jathar
Illustrations: Ritika Jathar
Web Development by Akhil Patil
Sound by Komal Jain
Notes:
Team:
Concept, direction, and storyboarding: Komal Jain
Visual Styling and image sourcing: Komal Jain and Ritika Jathar
Illustrations: Ritika Jathar
Web Development by Akhil Patil
Sound by Komal Jain
Notes:
Why Mammals are called Mammals by Dr. Londa Schiebinger
Complete list of bibliography and image sources
Complete list of bibliography and image sources
Moodboarding
Reading the essay and developing the story structure inspired deeply the need to use historical visuals but with a twist such as to provoke mood and questions that we want in our audience's minds. We decided to use drawings, paintings, photographs from across time and play with effects, colour tones and composition to develop a collage and zine-like comic.
Initial testing for visual language.
Collage is one of my favourite mediums to work in. It is incredibly freeing despite or possibly because I have to let go and allow images to serendipitously come together. My skills of form, composition and color are kept sharp through this process.
Opening frame
Aristotle considers structures of classification for the natural world.
Examining society's perception of breasts.
