Big Idea Description

The Big Idea that I chose is "Satisfaction".

In the visual brainstorming assignment, I approach the idea of satisfaction by two means. One way is physical means, such as sustenance (and borderline gluttony). The other way is emotional means, such as success, companionship, and approval.

I chose this idea because the idea of satisfaction is somewhat visually intangible, and I want to find a way to depict it clearly.

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Blog Entry 1

Robert Silvers is one of the developers of the Photomosaic process. Using collections of photographs, he joins them in a pattern to appear as one single large image when viewed from far away. From his website, some of the large images that he often targets are portraits of famous world figures.

Denotatively, it is easy to see how these smaller images create the illusion of one larger one. What is more interesting is examining the subjects of the small images themselves and attempting to understand their connotative relationship with the larger picture. For Princess Diana, we see images of flowers, symbolic of beauty and grace. For Jackie Kennedy, there are images of her husband John, connoting her devotion to him and her struggle after his death. For Pope John Paul II, we see images of Vatican City, representative of the Pope's many years of leadership and commitment to his religion.

Diana, 1999

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Double Jackie, 2009

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Source:
http://photomosaic.com/portfolio_portrait.html

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