"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" is a short story written by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates. The story was written in 1966, and addresses the shifting ideologies and paradoxes in a new American society. These posters illustrate this "shift" through use of typographic texture and disorientation.
Featured in Kent State University's 2018 VCD Juried Exhibition.
Poster 1: Typographic Texture
In keeping with the concept of shifting ideologies within American culture, I experimented with paper weaving techniques and used the physicality of warp and weft. When the poster is pulled apart (via the pull tabs), there is nothing left to the poster.
Poster 2: Warped Reality
"Connie stared at him, another wave of dizziness and fear rising in her so that for a moment he wasn't even in focus but was just a blur standing there against his gold car, and she had the idea that he had driven up the driveway all right but had come from nowhere before that and belonged nowhere and that everything about him and even about the music that was so familiar to her was only half real."
Joyce Carol Oates
This Poster follows the contours of the face and head, and parallels the distortion of the protagonist in the story.
