Graphic Novel Chapter 1+ Chapter2 (work in progress) Fall2024-Spring2025
*Note: will be reworking Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 soon!
The thesis project Wander in Dream is an ongoing graphic novel that is divided into four chapters. It tells the story of a young female protagonist, Lan, as an art student studying away from home. Her simple study life evolves when she wants to find a greater purpose in her art, that when she looks back in her memory and dream world. And also learning things that inspired her, such as film and surrealism, as well as her love and friendship, happened in her real-life. Throughout this journey, she dives into her memories, and her dreams become a key space where she seeks answers. In the end, Lan realizes that it’s more important to return to life than to stay in the safety of her dreams. This fiction story was inspired by my scattered memories of experience in life, and also dream journals I kept from fun recording. The part of the novel grounded in reality will be in monochrome, while memory and dream sequences will take on different artistic styles and narrative tones to show the shifts between these spaces. I want to use this contrast to experiment with how memory and dreams can reflect and distort the character's perception of reality.