The unfaltering paperplane

• Main Author: Syadza Zakariah
• Other Authors: Joan Marie Kelly
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2021
• Subjects: Visual arts and music::Visual arts
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/149616
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

‘The Unfaltering Paperplane’ is an illustrative storybook which aims to share stories of how some people navigate during a pandemic viewed through the lens of a young girl in her transition to adulthood. This story speaks to young audience in their twenties, on how the protagonist went through an emotional turmoil due to the loss of her loved one inviting audience to follow through her journey. It hopes to allow audience to relate to, understand, and empathize with others facing different set of challenges during unprecedented times. Through storytelling approach, this project intent to retell stories from participants gathered from surveys/interviews and then illustrate the experiences. Restorying is the process of collecting stories and analysing them to pick up the key elements of the story such as place, plot, time and scene. In order to engage and immerse readers in the narrative, there will be self-care prompts spread across the book to encourage readers to practice self-reflection and introspection. This self-care prompts/questions aims to empower individuals to tend to their own health handily and accessibly.