Green Book

In spring 2020, I took my last art class at Wellesley, a course about typography and book arts. Although this class was interrupted midway to completion by COVID-19, the class continued to work from our homes and alternative living situations. One assignment I completed from home was my "green book", which was supposed to respond to the color, concept, or idea of green. I chose to explore poison, which has been associated with green in the cultural imagination since the Radium Girls' gruesome deaths by radiation poisoning from luminscent green paint during World War I.

My book explored three aspects of poison and of green: bodily poisons, which are what one thinks of when they hear the word "poison" - substances that kill human beings; environmental poisons, which includes substances and phenomena that cause harm to natural environments on a variety of scales; and interpersonal poisons, which are emotions or circumstances that, if left unattended, can pull relationships apart.

Below are assorted spreads from the book. For the complete book, look here.