Re-imagining Kafka

Why did we make this? Our prompt required us to design something which utilized common elements in our illustration style. Based on the confluence of our styles and personal literary inclinations, the decision to re-imagine Kafka came to being. Why Kafka? To capture a sense of alienation, isolation and a complex crisis experienced internally. To see whether the chosen art form can adapt to different and varying concepts. To experiment with the image of Kafka in the reader’s market. Why Arts and Crafts style of illustrations? To bring to use dense, detailed compositions, ornamentation, and solid negative spaces, and even more imperative black spaces. To locate Kafka's timeless narratives in origins. To add to the image of Kafka's rich details. But aren't literary modernism and Arts and Crafts borrowing from a different set of values? Surely, but upon the completion of the onset of the modern state and consequent socioeconomic reconfiguration, both the movements had brought their focus on the evolving relationship of the modern society and the individual, and the sensitive human element missing from the vision of the "modern".

co-creator: Bhavya Kumar

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