I experiment with mixed media (oil, ink, water colour, photography and collage) and ditigal technologies (GNU Image manipulation Programme and Processing3 coding language) to create visual essays, reportage illustration and audio visuals.
I have a background in Anthropology and an interest in communicating anthropological ideas and ethnographic observations visually to engage, educate and entertain multiple audiences, as well as hopefully open up accessibility to the discipline of anthropology. I believe visual methods of representation, without imposing rigidity of explanation, can work in ways unique from the written text by allowing possibilities for conceptualisation and categorisation to be reshaped and expanded.
Other graphics are doodles that mainly direct attention to significant details in everyday life.
I also experiment with coding using Processing3 to create live visuals that interact with audio.
Projects
- Plant Listening: how North American herbalists learn to pay attention to plants."Plant Listening: how North American herbalists learn to pay attention to plants." Article written by Charis Boke (2019), published in Anthropology Today, April 2019. Collage and illustrations drawn by hand and manipulated (coloured, shaded, layered and formatted into position) using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Programme). Photographic images taken on Nikon D40 and manipulated with GIMP.
- Immortality for allVisual essay on Cryonics in Russia, referencing Anna Bernstein's 2019 book 'The Future of Immortality: Remaking life and death in Contemporary Russia' and 'Immortality- Transhumanism' episode of Laurie Taylors Radio 4 show 'Thinking Allowed'. Looking at Russian cryonics company 'KrioRus' and the connection this area of business has to various Russian attitudes to immortality, old and new. Illustrations drawn by hand and manipulated (coloured, shaded, layered and formatted into position) using GI
- Landscapes of Liberation and Imprisonment: Towards an Anthropology of the Israeli Landscape.Landscapes of Liberation and Imprisonment: Towards an Anthropology of the Israeli Landscape. Written by Tom Selwyn (1995) Hirsch, E. and O'Hanlon, M., (eds.), The anthropology of landscape: perspectives on place and space. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Digital Afterlife: (Eco)civilisational Politics of the site and sight of ewaste in China."Digital Afterlife: (Eco)civilisational Politics of the site and sight of ewaste in China." Written by Dennis Zuev (2018), published in Anthropology Today, April 2019, vol. 35, no. 2 Illustrations drawn by hand and manipulated (coloured, shaded, layered and formatted into position) using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Programme). Content of illustrations sourced from Dennis Zuev's photo collection or secondary sources online. Photographic images taken on Nikon D40 and manipulated with GIMP.
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Skills
- Vjing
- Animation VFX
- Gimp
- Blender
- Storyboarding
- Anthropology
- Reportage Illustration
- Zine Design
Education
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AnthropologySOAS
London, United Kingdom