Building Imaginary Worlds, the theory and history of subcreation Mark J.P. Wolf. This is a book about the basics of creating your own world, one that would be plausible at least. It lists worlds from books through to online gaming. Most notably, but not surprisingly, are the heavy references and fall backs to Tolkin and his amazing imaginary worlds. They were so plausible, because no matter what you questioned, there was always a definitive rational answer. Every detail was there and perfected. However, towards the beginning of the book, it outlines, that your worlds don't have to be extremely in depth. There just has to be enough for the audience to start believing and seeing themselves within the piece. Later it goes on to talk about evil subcreators: "The figure of the evil subcreator is usually guilty of one or both sins; abusing his power and putting himself in the place of God, or using a subcreated world as a means of imprisoning or containing an individual or a community in order to further some project of his own". This is interesting as i am making these worlds for myself, my own satisfaction. And at times, it does seem that i am imprisoning people in them, even though you can't see them. You know they are there, and I am subjecting them to some sort of disaster/ terror each time.
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Kerry FosterThird Year Fine Art Student at Falmouth School of Art. Fellow artists: |