For my personal study final pieces I aim to create 3 separate handmaid books; one named ‘Erasure’, a hand bound poetic narrative book that explores my want of not wanting my own identity, another named ‘Uncomfortable Skin’ another hand bound book with images that reflect myself and how I’m not currently settled into my vessel I was given, and finally another hand bound book with my final essay discussing ‘Can a personality and identity be reflected through a portrait?’. This trilogy will be encased in a handmade small cardboard box tailored to fit my smaller than A5 books. The idea of the box is to reflect how mental health is still a taboo subject within society so I’m physically hiding the problems away until someone goes and physically discovers them. Everything within my project is supposed to have a rough-and-ready feel due to it being handmade and personal, and could also be connotated as nothing and no one is perfect and usually their imperfections are the admired. My box is neutral toned so that it appears normal on the outside, then my two photographic anthologies are a soft grey colour with red thread which binds the book. This contrast was done mainly for aesthetic purposes. Then my essay zine has a crimson cover and is white thread bound so that it’s obvious that it’s different, this is due to it being a heavily weighted essay reliant upon knowledge and context that benefit my personal identity.