Project: Dark Zodiac
Illustrators: Mariana Yatsuda Ikuta and Eun Kyoung Ju
Illustrators: Mariana Yatsuda Ikuta and Eun Kyoung Ju
Studying signs can be a very fun way of learning more about yourself. Usually we learn the good qualities or what makes us special. Nonetheless, there are the other side where things aren't that pretty, where we can become our worst selfs.
This is a collaboration project where we explored the extreme dark side of signs.
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TAURUS
April 20 - May 20
Since she was born, she was made to believe she deserved more than life could offer. Any glimpse of desire should be promptly attended. Her surrounding got filled with more and more things. In the surface everything was new and shiny but underneath there was only a dark musty sea.
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PISCES
February 19 - March 20
Once upon a time there was a place to be stuck in the in between. Numb. Constantly drifting. Choosing not to choose until the choice was made for you.
In this place, it was easier to pretend dreaming was living.
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SCORPIO
October 23 - November 21
The forced smile was frozen in her face and even she couldn’t tell anymore when she was really happy or actually deeply sad. What started just for fun became a dark and twisted entangled life.
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VIRGO
August 23-September 22
One fateful day she had a vision. It was all laid out perfectly how life should and could be. It became the only way. Carefully and methodically, she followed the plan in hopes to find a way to fulfill the void.
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CANCER
June 21 - July 22
In a land not too far from here and in a future not so distant from now, she crawled her way into this poor girl’s life. Slowly but surely, joy, dreams; her whole life was sucked dry. Where she goes, they are left with more hollow carcasses.
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CAPRICORN
December 22 - January 19
This is a tale that has been told for a long time, about a fish that really wanted to reach the top of the hill. So much so that it grew legs and thrived through the most difficult path. What they don't say is what really entails reaching your goal no matter what.
