Missing - Idea Summary

Idea Summary

Every single page of this book is a dedication to the lost, those that have lost, and some that have, eventually, found their loved ones. It’s a dignified insight in to each dimensional perspective of missing someone or being missed, highlighting outside approaches from the media and the police force, along with private investigators and voluntary work conducted by friends and family. I intend to place a further focus on motivations and consequences that surrounding the choice to “run away” voluntarily and the tremors that it leaves, often destroying the fragile balance of a family. This will also lead off in to the direction of a
families harrowing experience, lacking a key member of the family and sacrificing anything to get that one person back, regardless of whether it means to pay with time or money.

This feeling of being left on the edge of a cliff in the dead of night is an
incomprehensible emotion, which I hope to try and get my head around within the
duration of my book’s content, of which it will be copy heavy due to the large amount of
information needed to cover such vast areas of this mountainous topic. It’s also imperative that I’ve explored within my research clear examples of disappearances that have occurred mainly in and around Leeds or the Yorkshire area at least.

It is with these examples that I intend to delve into the situation and interpret it as respectfully and truthfully as possible, minimising any personal opinions and allowing the copy to flow on an average wave length which remains understandable for anyone choosing to read the book.

By way of conveying the aspects of becoming victim in any shape or form, it is crucial that the copy is balanced with relevant illustration styles that contribute to the overall mood and atmosphere of the book, which should feel quite personal, but open and sympathetic,
constantly talking in a dignified manner. By fusing David Shrigley’s emotional illustration style with my own complicated abstract forms using the classic children’s toy Spirograph, my visuals will display that reverent heart of the book.

In a symbolic sense my own compassion will be reflected in the complicated lives of the people that suffer this loss, with the circles reflecting both the missing person, lost and adrift in an impossible group of people, or the scattered phases that a parent or sibling would go through. The Spirograph circles will also allow a setting for the Shrigley-esque style that will plant quite a handmade and almost story-like feel to the book, escaping any in-depth over complication that could potentially occur in the balance of the written work.