For my Position through contextualising I first developed the sources I wanted to reference, this work was Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000). An autobiographical novel that covers the authors experiences as a child at the begining of Iran’s revolution.
Inspired by her work and my own previous approach to my romanian identity, I dwelved into creating my own comics, covering glimpses into my own experiences as a Romanian immigrant lving in London. These experiences cover feelings of alienation and microaggresion experienced by me in the last five years.
Using my own styleI approached comic making in a slight untraditional approach as my comic does not follow typical comic layouts. I also created a few more sketched layouts of this translation.
My peers feedback was that, while this work was interesting, they wanted me to attempt to push past just creating work that is a comic and perhaps considering changing the medium or output.
Taking this into account I decided to create a piece of work that was more reflrective of my feelings and more autobiographical and present it in the form of a zine.
This was a hard iteration for me, as it pushed me to lightly expose experiences that soured my first few years of living here. WHile it felt like a slight surface level approach to this subject, to me this was a nerve wrecking presentation as everyone individually read through what I felt.
The feedback for this session once more was pointing me in a diffrent direction, this time questioning whether I should return to my original inquiry of my own identity as a Romanian in the UK. To my relief I was excited to return to a safe distance from exposing deeply personal experiences.
In my next attempt I turned towards reading a bit more on scholars perception of Persepolis and the reason it is such an impactful piece of media. SOmething that seemed to stand out to me was the fact that Persepolis used the childhood aspect as a tool of relating to the audience, something I took as inspiration in my next few posters.
For these iterations I tried to develop a few posters that did not rely on words and instead represented elements of my life. These are created with the intention of sparking questions and conversations within the viewer.