100 Years

As an extension of my visualizations of 100 Hours and 100 Days, I decided to explore 100(+) years through the lens of my family tree.

It's no secret I'm interested in the physical properties of paper — and the latest piece in my 100 Series continues to celebrate and embrace the medium. And it is the second in the series to utilize an organized grid as a vessel to leverage the universality of color as a tool for communication — with observations to be made at both micro and macro levels. The overlap of hues, shades, and saturation is a language we all speak, though we may each interpret it a little differently.

This piece is an outline of my family tree. You can see the colors at the top absorbed by those below in acknowledgement of how we are all influenced by those who came before — along with the tendrils of string connecting us across long horizons of time. Most notable are the deepest and darkest parts of who we are. The varying levels of influence and connection that shape us as individuals.