About
This project is a silent illustrative book, the narrative is designed to be followed without needing text to follow. This publication is aimed at teens and up audiences. The narrative follows two co-workers isolated on a secluded base in Antarctica who are faced with the end of the world as they know it. The characters are faced with the moon rapidly descending down to Earth with nothing they can do to stop it.
The setting was chosen to be Antarctica because of the remote cold feel to the environment, additionally this was to highlight how the two main characters can only be there for each other in the end. The story fundamentally is about embracing change through major loss. Using the moon as the main subject for loss since it is a staple in everyone's lives and has been with humanity since the beginning.
When originally conceptualising the book I had imagined that the moon would come crashing down to Earth and the narrative would be centered around final goodbyes. However, when researching for the book I found that if the moon somehow fell out of orbit it would take a long time for it to actually reach us, it would also wreak havoc on our waves, but the most interesting part is that when the Moon gets too close to Earth, its shape becomes stretched out because of Earth's gravitational pull. This puts immense pressure on the moon that causes moon-wide “moonquakes” and subsequently makes it crumble apart. The moon rock would enter our orbit and follow it around the Earth forming a ring. This is actually how they hypothesize how Saturn got its rings. I found this to be a much more beautiful direction for the story to go in.
Change is something that can be terrifying especially when it can feel like a major loss, but what comes out of it on the other side, although unknown, can be just as exciting and fulfilling as what came before it.
That is what I’m hoping to capture with this publication,
The End of the Moon.