Morton Salt Girl
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Assignment You received an "umbrella girl" image that can be found on Morton Salt packaging. I asked you to imagine that the figure represents you — someone who is both a consumer and a producer of media. Something is (or some things are) coming toward her, into her sphere. They affect her. Meanwhile, she is distributing something. Does the material raining on her affect what she distributes, or how she distributes it? What intended and unintended effects might it have? Who will be effected, and in what way? Create a visual response. The figure must be included but can be altered. |
8.27.13
The concrete and the abstract in relation to the physical world and the internal experience. Rigid and structured - is the place where the girl exists - the product is free, abstract, and connected. The physical/external world is a person's environment and the way a person reacts to it. One cannot exist without the other. Perhaps there is too much of a separation between the internal interpretations and expressions of the emotional and abstract from the physical environment. There is something comforting - although I say it with hesitancy - about the structure and rigid. Harder to find a constant and perhaps contentedness in the abstract. Yes. It's harder for me to find security in the ever-changing and uncertain - but that's the way things are. The only structure and constants are the ones I fictionally create. 8.29.13 salt container - something she was holding onto dearly but was oblivious of the consequences of carrying it how she was. was blind to it. not proper use of the product. products represents consumerism and mass production, materialism - she was protected and sheltered from the rain, a natural force. never exposed to the elements - a false sense of security - the safety from the natural world became overwhelming and isolated her from it |