Exercise One - Speed Critique
My partner and I went over our keywords, the five words we chose the week prior, and how far we took them in terms of expansion. So, where they took the words, found synonyms and words related (both in terms of meaning and how they saw relation), I translated words into Maori and then found synonyms to that. We also spoke about our fields of interest and disciplines and what the words made us think of. Seeing the sheer amount that they expanded from just synonyms to antonyms and related words, I began to question how far I could also take them. So below are mindmaps extending further, but also concepts that came to mind as I did this.
The first word is Mirror. I went down many routes with this word, finding connections with much that one may not necessarily think of instantly. It became almost root-like in how it looks, and many times you could see one thing be in multiple places. The images to the right of the map are loosely but also literally associated with the words they embody. In the third concept (bottom right), the words used are stance, spectator, and imaginary. The person made of dashed lines holds a fighting stance, but the dashed lines represent not properly existing/being imaginary. The rock's person is the spectator and holds a different stance, where they hold a different view of the world and are literally behind a rock, hiding.
The second word is Instability. Like what I had done before, I took keywords from the previous mindmap and expanded, so some will be the same. Images two and three (top right, bottom left) show different takes on the words, similar to Mirror. Image two has the words movement, water, overflow, and terrain. Some of the words are more literal than not, so water and overflow are shown as themselves. Movement is expressed inside the water as lines but also as the outline of the water itself. The terrain then becomes the blank landscape.
The last word is Tether, and similar to Instability, it has words featured in a previous map. The concepts from this one, again similar to those before, show the literal and metaphorical meanings of the words. Fate's drawing has the "red string of fate" iconography, and this is taken from connection, where fate potentially dictates the people in our lives and what we will experience.
The exercise above also contributes to the exercise we had to do by ourselves. This was "Leaving Familiar Territory - Self Reflection: Working alone but feeling connected."
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