An animation of a woman circling around a yellow room

An illustration of a woman circling round a room, the figures are stacked onntop of one another

The Yellow Wallpaper

Self-initiated work based on the book ‘The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The story follows a woman who has been sent to a country house for ‘rest cure’. She becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom and begins to descent into psychosis. The two illustrations aim to capture the idyllic first impressions of the country estate and the second image capturing the deterioration of the woman's mental health and disorientation and repetition her once in her psychosis. The animation captures the final scene in the book where the woman rips the wallpaper from the walls and circles the room endlessly.

An illustration of a woman circling round a yellow room