Interpreting  Shaping Meaning...

 

 

 

"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it"

~Carl Gustav Jung

 

 

Photo courtesy of: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2901190222_feede00696.jpg

 

 

 

Many ideas came to mind for this project before settling on one which you can find here. Take a look at the journey of my thought process before Shaping Meaning Through Notan Art came to fruition!

 

 

 

February 28, 2009

 

 

Shaping Meaning Project Idea:

For this project my plan is to create an image that forces the viewer to determine the meaning based on their interpretaion of the silhouette being used. For example, a silhouette of someone with their arms raised could mean different things to different people. For some this could mean "victory" and to others it could mean "defeat".

 

 

Question: What would be an effective way to go about presenting a lesson based on this idea?

For a Photoshop lesson on Expressive Gesture, students could research silhouette artist exemplars on your Delicious account, and then they can be photographed against a plain white wall.  Their figure can be selected and filled with a solid color to make a silhouette.  There are many ways this can be done with traditional media, too.

 

 

 

March 4, 2009

 

 

When we first discussed the Shaping Meaning project, specifically silhouettes, I was  also reminded of a song...

 

 

I've got a cupboard with cans of food

 

Filtered water, and pictures of you

 

And I'm not coming out until this is all over

 

And I'm looking through the glass

 

Where the light bends at the cracks

 

And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs

 

Pretending the echoes belong to someone

 

Someone I used to know

 

And we become silhouettes

 

When our bodies finally go

 

I wanted to walk though the empty streets

 

And feel something constant under my feet

 

But all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors

 

Because the air outside will make

 

Our cells divide at an alarming rate

 

Until our shells simply cannot hold

 

All our insides in, and that's when we'll explode

 

(And it won't be a pretty sight)

 

And we'll become silhouettes

 

When our bodies finally go

 

 

~The Postal Service. We Become Silhouettes