I had the opportunity to participate as the illustrator, I created the cover and 4 illustrations per chapter.
Based on Izabel story, I created a visual narrative within the story. Representing her as a doll. In the cover we see her through the mirror, embodying the dissonance of identity and the courage to confront herself, setting the stage for a journey from isolation to liberation.
The doll stares at herself with a bird mask on, a mask she made herself, in a room with some others she perhaps wore before, trying to find herself while doing the opposite. Representing emotional detachment and the numbness of early struggle. A trapped butterfly and puffer fish await for her to notice them.
The doll feeds a puffer fish, a fish that might be toxic when not cooked properly. Representing the harmful thoughts that she fed herself. The expressionless mask mimics the false comfort of control.The clash of vibrant hues and decay underscores the seductive danger of disordered habits. And in a vibrant yellow, the shape of a ink butterfly, a Rorschach inkblot, to symbolize her distorted perception of reality.
The mirror is broken, shattered on the flood, and the doll is using a red thread to sew herself back together, while looking outside the window and the butterfly set free, such as the false torturing illusions that once filled her mind. Shards now reflect splinters of nature instead of her body, marking her first step toward prioritizing inner life over outward appearance.
Where the bird mask is sitting on a table looking at her running outside, euphoric, feeling the warm of the sun, her hair wild flying with the wind. Besides the mask, there’s an empty fish tank, maybe the fish was never real in the first place. runs through a sun-drenched field, her hair wild and arms outstretched. Her figure blends into the landscape, symbolizing integration, no longer at war with her body, but moving with it.