This is Lucy.
And this is Carl.
They like to do things. Things like moving. They’re especially good at intentional moving, unconsciously.
This was Lucy, once.
Then I got my hands on her.
And This is Proprioception.
(A project from last Christmas.)
Inspired by the ingenuity of the pseudo-educational comedy, Look Around You, Proprioception was a mock 70’s educational manual in which I took a real life bit of, really damn interesting, biology and explained it using entirely non scientific methods. Because I am an illustrator, so cutting things up makes more sense to me than the deeply fascinating intricacies of real life biology.
The pseudo diagrams were designed to portray the importance of this fascinatingly vital sixth sense, so inherent in our bodies most people have never even considered a life without it (and in fact there are only 6 known cases of people having a complete lack. This is a really cool video about one man’s battle.)
The “text book” had fold out elements to reveal new tasks that got people thinking about the impact of Proprioception in their own life.
I wanted to draw people’s attention to it’s vitality to our functioning everyday and used tasks and design choices to create a style reminiscent of an 70’s school textbook/instruction manual with a playful, modern twist.
Proprioception allows us to understand our own body’s position in relation to itself without consciously considering where each limb is. It’s why when you close your eyes, you know where both your hands are. It’s super neat and super vital and I wanted people to understand that fact using simple collage techniques and fun imagery to demonstrate the incomprehensible struggle that would be living without it.
Plus it gave me an excuse to cut up my friends faces for a few months.
Seriously, I was picking Carls head out of my carpet for weeks.
Rebecca Bagley Illustration 