Prompt:
- “Freedom to Express, Freedom to Explore, Freedom from Expectation”
- In a paragraph for each separate portion of the phrase, describe how you would depict each concept. These can be a narrative story, a picture, a graphic design, or other….
My response:
- To express:
- Expression is such a vast concept, so to depict it I would need something that feels boundless. To me freedom to express “looks like” freedom within relative isolation. Your ideas may come from that place of solo thought, but it’s also unimpeded by the ideas or opinions of others. I would visually use a sense of being engulfed by one’s ideas in a way that feels like an embrace. A single, smooth object surrounded by an aura that flows with its movement.
- To explore:
- Free exploration always reminds me of the idea of “the fool” in tarot. The idea that a character within the story is undertaking a new journey down a path they have never been. I think visually the ways I would show this would include placing an item in the close foreground, and placing my representation of dreams and goals in the background as apart of the infinite explorative directions that could be taken. A tarot card would also be a nice use.
- From expectation:
- Freedom from expectation is a very heavy concept in itself. I feel like my visual representation of this idea would include something to depict how expectation can carry so much weight and overshadow so much of what we seek to experience and see. I feel expectation is like a pure black anvil, something that feels like cast iron. The texture of this darkness reminding us how heavy it can be. With a small tunnel or bubble formed towards the middle with a few rays of light to shine thru this darkness. Possibly even expanding the bubble to take up more space than the expectation.