Sustained Investigation Question:

How does music affect my life throughout the day?

Overarching focus:

• The focus is to communicate how music comforts me when I sleep.

• My idea was to turn music into an actual blanket, showing that comfort in a visual form.

• I planned things out digitally as I worked, and built up colors in layers.

• I used “Sweet Baby James” by James Taylor & “A Break in Their Day” by David Hettinger as a resource.

Planning Pages:

For this piece I focused specifically on how music is a comfort for me when trying to sleep. I've always had trouble sleeping, and wanted to visually show how listening to music helps me. I did this by taking sheet music to my childhood lullaby, "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor, and turning it into a literal blanket, representing a non-physical comfort in a tangible form.