John Gabriel Borkman is a psychogical thriller written by Henrik Ibsen and it’s about a son who is being overshadowed by his greedy, money-hungry father. Maureen Huskey, the director, wanted to go in a direction that was “beautifully grotesque” so they wanted to have an illustrative poster but still maintain a darker tone. As a result, I decided to use two types of ornamentation, one that is based on vector, plant-inspired ornamentation to represent the son’s world and the other is based on

a fluid, oil/gasoline like substance to represent the father’s world. The forms within the son’s ornmentation is meant to resemble psychology and birth by abstracting the grooves of the brain and also embedding blooming flowers and a fetus within that ornamentation. I also decided to make the flowers blue to represent the struggles and conflict that the son is experiencing internally.