This poster was created to showcase an idea or concept that resonated with me. After some thought, I chose to use an experience from my first trip abroad to Spain. I remember being at the top of a castle tower with this beautiful, expansive, mountainous landscape stretched out in front of me, and all I wanted to do was jump off and fly. This in turn, brought my attention to a note my mom hid in my luggage for me to find, the last lines of a poem by Erin Hanson.
"What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling, what if you fly?"
In this piece, I wanted to emphasize that feeling of jumping and soaring while incorporating the idea of an uncertain future. The original idea was to include an ambigram so the poster could be viewed upside down or right side up, but that idea was scrapped in favor of using my mother's handwriting for the text and bringing the whole idea full circle.
Stylistically, I wanted to draw from the story of Icarus by using the Rennaisance interpretation of the Greco-Roman style; which is also why I pulled the colors from Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, and why the figure is draped.