Week 2.1

For our first exercise, we were shown how drawings have both a denotation and connotation. This was quite eye opening to see how rotating or combining it with other drawings can create an entirely different connotation than the original.

For our 2nd exercise, we drew concepts that were based on using a random word or metaphor in combination with our topic to communicate a meaning. My random for was 'rock' which initially I thought was going to be really hard to create a concept with. My metaphor was 'You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear which basically means being unable to turn something ugly or inferior into something attractive or of value. I can see myself using this technique in the future as it was really helpful for generating new concepts. I never even thought the words 'rock' and 'poverty' would correlate with each other, but somehow it does.

Out of the concepts we drew, we had to pick our most successful one to pin up on the board. I tried to show how living in poverty is like living under a rock by having an image of a house underneath a person living inside a rock. By having the house below, it shows how the person could be living. I could develop this concept more but need to include something about children.