Visualising Objects

I was quite constricted for this task which I wasn't too happy about. I had a list of six words and six objects, and I had to begin by picking four of each. I would draw, in an abstract way, four of the objects separately. Then pick a word out of each of the four that I had previously chosen. I would then write this word with each of the four drawings. I picked the word WAR to go with drawings of a mobile phone, a flower, the bottom of a bottle and a cup.

I think I was able to link the word WAR to all the four drawings well. With the mobile phone I linked it to how if there was a world war now, it would be a lot more technology based than previous world wars. For the flower I linked to hope and piece, things people wish for during wars. The bottom of the water bottle turned out to be the most abstract out of the four and I thought it looked like an explosion. The cup was quite old fashioned looking and reminded me of the tin pots and cups they had in world war 1 and 2.

I found the task strangely hard. I was expecting it to be quite easy and I didn't think that it would take me a while to even plan what I wanted to do. I wanted my work to be unique and interesting but this took time. 

Secondly we switched the idea so we used four different words with the same drawing. However this time we also used colour. This took longer as I cut shapes out of coloured bits of paper to provide the colour. I didn't produce the same image four times, but I did produce similar ones, and I used different words as instructed. I decided to work from the bottom of the bottle as I found this to be the most interesting and powerful.

I did enjoy this task but I did find it annoying at times. For example it wasn't a task I was particularly excited for and so therefore I wasn't 100% motivated to think of unique, original ideas.