Untie a Knot : Fear

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One-sentence summary:

Combining my love for neuroscience and psychology,
I wrote a book to spit in the face of fear.

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I wanted the text and illustration to sorta sing a visual duet together.

Throughout the book, I worked to embellish three-dimensional ideas in a two-dimensional space. Books offer certain advantages, in the physical sense, and I thought it might be beautiful to marry cut-outs with overlays and gradients and call-backs:

The book’s binding was done by hand using – what I believe was – a coptic stitch: