Tiffany Valcourt

Regenerated Fairytales

Remixing Fairytales, abstracting how one views and feels about these childhood stories.

When I first started thinking about Senior Thesis I was stuck in my own box. The only thing I wanted to think about was recovering from bad habits what I have addicted myself with over the years. I started out with the word Recovery for this project but was still unsure how to detach myself from my own recovery. Over the summer I started reading all sorts of definitions on the word, and found a definition that I liked, “to find something that has been lost”.

What I think has been lost in my world were fairy tales. A place to get away from reality and go on adventures and to pretend to be someone else, or a better version of yourself. Also I think society has lost the meanings behind fairytales, on how they give you a life lesson and that everything isn’t always a happily ever after.

Branching from recovery and then fairy tale meanings I want to redesign how these fairy tales are viewed and completely abstract how they are told working with color theory and typography, as well with poster design and other aspects of design.

I started thinking about “remixing” fairy tales by talking to professors about my idea and also looking at the artist I’m into, such as David Carson, Jonathan Haggard, Scott Hansen, Jackson Pollock, and Pablo Picasso. They all have a mix of media and redesign of objects and space.