Artist Statement
This alphabet book was created for my Drawing I and First-Year Seminar finals during my freshman year at NVU-Johnson. We had to pick a controversial art topic and create a work of art based off that topic. I chose to study art forgery and created a book inspired by Edward Gorey’s death alphabet. Since I am a big Game of Thrones fan, I decided to create my own death alphabet based off this series, in which lots of characters die. It is made with drawing paper, acrylic paint, and pen and ink. The cover is painted with acrylic paint, containing the title and four sigils from the Game of Thrones universe. The inside consists of 26 pen and ink drawings, one for each letter of the alphabet, copying the line quality of Edward Gorey’s work. Each letter contains a different character from the books who dies and a rhyming scheme.