A documentation and celebration of
the collective consciousness of girls.
Role
Research
Visual Design
Team
Just me <3
Tools
InDesign
Photoshop
Duration
7 weeks
Girl dinner this, girl math that.
This publication comes out of bustling online discourse about "hot girl walk" this and "girl dinner" that, begging the question of what defines girlhood. These conversations follow a summer of Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. Amidst the wave of celebratory feminine energy, there also came grief in the form of bittersweet TikToks backed by Billie Eilish's "What Was I Made For?" as girls gathered to reminisce on the beautifully painful experiences of girlhood. It became quickly apparent that girlhood is a duality.
Hell is a Teenage Girl
Girl explores what coming of age means to girls. It asks girls to reflect on their complex, contradictory relationship with girlhood through a mix of personal accounts, photography, and ephemera.
It celebrates the joy of being a girl, while acknowledging its juxtapositions— the feminine rage, the frustrations, and the grief. It embodies the way that girlhood is layered with various experiences and feelings that ebb, flow, and melt into one another. It is a mosaic of ever-juxtaposing experiences.
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
The book is made up of interviews and artifacts, including editorial photos by female photographers, candid photos by girls in America, and quotes and excerpts from women in literature and media.
SUPERCUT OF US
Photography is organized with six types of grids.
Intermixing different grids and positioning of imagery creates a montage, or “Supercut” reading experience as readers travel through the girlhood stream-of-consciousness.
Fine Details
GIRLHOOD AS MOSAIC
Vellum sheets hold written artifacts like literature and poignant quotes from women. The layering of the vellum creates a visual representation of the overlapping, collective memories of girlhood, and further illustrates the idea of a mosaic.
To My Girls
This project is dedicated to all the girls and women in my life.
Thank you for sharing your stories with me, and for being living reminders that we never have to do girlhood alone.
Oh, how I love being a woman.
