Personal Manifesto Part 2

 For the second part of the manifesto I researched into the teachings of Vietnamese Buddhist Thich Naht Hanh and his theories on Interbeing.  The idea of self does not exist, material possession and the perception of 'mine' is an illusion. Interbeing delves into methods of everything is co dependent on each other for survival.

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With this concept in relation to my project with family, without the presence of the father there can be no son. Human survival link to inter being philosophy, to visually represent this I decided to experiment with different typography fonts. The words that I picked are meant to connect with the philosophical teachings and imagery of connection (like tree roots)

Otac is the formal word for father in Serbian, I chose to connect the words together to emphasize the cyclical concept of father and son.










The are 14 precepts of Interbeing I compacted the teachings to 3 main ones that spoke to me the most.
-Possess nothing that should belong to others
-to not avoid suffering when you see it
-to leave behind hatred

Keeping with photography as a visual medium, I took this photograph of trees to develop the idea on inter being further by finding imagery that presents that.

Through photographic manipulation I tested out negative effects on the original picture I took. Which resulted in an almost ethereal look with the absence of black, the blue hues dominated. This could potentially be an ideal background for my personal manifesto 2.

Continuing with a much more colder colour scheme, Ive abstracted the leaf shapes further and added more circles into the image to highlight the symbolic link to cycles and co dependence of my manifesto. This time playing with white it acts as a method of emphasizing the shape of the branches, setting it apart from the other sections of the blue background.

In this final draft Ive decided to give it a less intense effect, which compliments the warm tones from the writing below. The words state the three main precepts of Interbeing which I believe are words to live by, to not live in hatred, turn away from suffering or hold things that don't belong to you. In addition to highlight the centre of image the edges have been darkened which has also softened the general look of the final outcome.