“Paralysis” – Figuring out what I needed to illustrate by highlighting keywords in the article
Even before asking the question: what do I draw – I have to ask the deeper question: what am I trying to represent?
The article had a many ideas running through it with illustrious examples about the capitalisation of time as a means of measuring human output leading to the depletion of natural resources...and ultimately, climate change. Quite a mouthful, right?
With only one hero image and three spit illustrations, I needed to capture the article’s main point – or reframed: what is the author trying to say? I started by printing out the online article and highlighting words or sentencing that were repeated.
The author kept repeating one theme over and over – the idea of paralysis. How a commodified use of time paralyses humanity into a doom of working and resource depletion.