Drawings of my paper wallet
My colorful purse
A visual language is a set of practices by which images can be used to communicate concepts. While looking at the variety of beads I have created in this class thus far, I am drawn to how different some of them make me feel emotionally. My black bead with air bubbles trapped inside makes me feel dark and secretive while my white and pink bead gives me the sensations of innocence and femininity. One part of my concept focuses on the combination of colors together and how they make the viewer feel. - Orange: combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy and represents enthusiasm, happiness, stimulation, and success.
- Dark orange: can mean deceit and distrust.
- Yellow: is associated with cheerfullness and spontaneous but is also connected to un stability and cowardnice.
- Green: associated with ambition, greed, jealousy, peace, and stability.
- Purple: royalty, power, nobility, wealth, and frustration
- Brown: earth, order, and convention
After looking at the meanings and associations of these colors, I realize that they all have to potential to describe they way money makes us feel; happy, success, distrust, power, wealth, order, and frustration. I am interested in attempting to combine these colors somehow in my final glass currency project.
My second part to my concept involves the form and idea of tupperware. The ability for these plastic dishes to become one unit, break apart and divide into separate pieces, and then combine again into one unit appeals me. There is a visual organization and hiearchy of these objects which is shown in size and color. They are stored easily, but accessible whenever necessary. I would like to combine this concept of puzzle pieces and tupperware into my currency.
Nice post- Maybe you should narrow the colors to be the ones you think are positive or negative about money- Money has so many interpretations and maybe you could comment on one of them- I think you will have to narrow your color range to create any meaning are all- otherwise they just look like a bunch of brightly colored beads.
ReplyDeleteI am interested to see how you incorporate the idea of tupperware into the final project- Will you create a way to carry the different values that fits one inside the other- or will the beads fit one inside each other.