exiles
︎︎︎ digital illustration, visual narrative, risograph printingA risograph comic I made for my research-based BFA thesis project.
The story explores themes of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), inner conflict and forgiveness through the lens of IFS (Internal Family Systems) and magical realism.
I used simple blue and red to emphasize the contrast between the two characters and their conflicting thought patterns. Using digital watercolor as a medium allowed the story to feel cloudy and distorted, and freed the narriative to blur and shift between reality, headspace, and memory.
Read it here.
arachne
︎︎︎ programming, creative writing, worldbuildingA choose-your-own-adventure game I wrote and coded.
After learnng Twine and some basic CMS, I was inspired by a comic I wrote as a teenager about greif and spiders and decided to rework the concept as a game.
With rudimentary coding skills, I was limited to using words and text manipulation to tell the story. However, I think the constraint led to an unexpected presentation that felt eerily digital, alienating, and unstable, which the story molded to fit as it was created. It was a unique process I’d like to experiment more with in the future.
Available to play via Borogrove.io