Image Illustration through photography

My three choices for the Illustration project are all Jorge Luis Borges Short stories, The Aleph, The Immortal, and The Circular Ruins.

all of the short stories Borges wrote were all very grim and borderline depressing, yet they all are full of interesting detail and creative thought. With Borges loosing his sight and being a little torn between fiction and non, his insight is very interesting.

The Aleph is a really good story, it plays a lot with the idea of Infinity, jealousy, and greed. The story is very abstract like most of Borges's stories and goes into immensely deep detail. Very surreal.

The Immortals is a very good read, it has to do with a mans search for immortality without even really believing in immortality, once he finds it he sorta regrets it and feels like nothing matters. I believe this would be a very interesting story to illustrate. Themes like immortality, a search for something that no one has ascertained, the spiritual journey. i think i can make some really cool images that have to do with long exposures and some fun ideas for that state of immortality.

the last was The Circular Ruins which is a story open for deep interpretation. my belief is that it is about Borges and his want to start anew a life away from his own at that point in his life. His themes of a fresh start, magic, and creationism. I think there are a couple cool ideas i can come up with for it to make it interesting.