Borderland was my thesis project at Savannah College of Art and Design. The handmade book printed on Japanese paper combines watercolor illustrations, comics, and color photographs to document and tell a story of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast. Emphasizing the characteristics of the region as an in-between space of Africa and America, water and land, reality and imagination, the story develops around the themes of memory and landscape. Animal life, the memory of slavery, and Gullah-Geechee folklore intertwine in the story and take the reader on a dream-like journey through the beautiful barrier islands.
Borderland is on sale on Etsy.
Here are some of the images from the book.
Front and back covers
Jekyll Island, 2014
Ossabaw Island, 2014
End paper
