Text in the environment

Project 1: Environmental Lettering- We had to find the structure of letterforms. Text is everywhere you just have to know where to find it. Text can be found in the environment if you are looking hard enough. These pictures are letterforms I have found in the environment. There is text everywhere you go as long as you know how to look for it.

What is defined as free? People and People like us, are we all really as free as we think we are? We all have freedom in some way but sometimes I think freedom has its boundaries. In this photomontage I wanted the viewer to feel the emotion of this image and wonder who these people are. I put the soldiers in the front because they represent the first soldiers, back when all they new of was going to war and fighting for their country. Then, the modern day people in the background are they really that much different as the people in the foreground? Have we changed all that much? We are still at war and right now that is all people are still thinking about and the same emotions that they felt hundreds of years ago are the same emotions that we are still feeling about war. I enlarged the guy with the flag because he plays into what the montage is about, fighting for what he believes in. The train was something I really enjoyed looking at I really wanted to add the train in my composition because it reminds me of a journey or waiting on freedom to actually come. "When is the Freedom Train coming." I wanted to announce all these images so that the viewer can understand why they are so important in my composition. It is very complex but I wanted it to be that way because freedom is complex also.

final composition

final composition

image of a Metaphor

This is an example of Metaphor. A metaphor is defined as a substitute for one word or image in a sequence for another we can transfer the characteristics of one object to another. The image shown below is a metaphor. We can clearly see that these people are in a meeting looking at their sales. The arrow is pointing down off the page into the toilet. It is representing that their sales are low and everything is going down in the toilet.

comp 1 feather and the human

For this image I have a feather and a human. The feather could represent being free, flowing and unexpected. However, this feather could be traveling somewhere. We don't know where it came from or where the wind is going to take it. In addition, I added the person to the feather, having him hanging on by a thread and letting the feather take him where he needs to go.

In life we don't really know what are future has in store for us, we can try to control it but like a feather it goes where the wind takes it. I want this feather to represent this person's future. Our future's are all unpredictable and instead of trying to walk down your own path let your feather take you where you are meant to be.