Graphics Reference
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Table 4.
Your Visual Response: Object Changes its Meaning
Part 1
Draw or sketch a picture showing your room. It may be your favorite room in your home, your bedroom, office in your workplace or home,
or another space you used to work. Then, create a drawing of objects you see in this room. It does not have to be a photographical repre-
sentation; we have a camera for that. Focus on some significant features of that object that are crucial for the recognition of its function and
mechanics. If you are drawing on a computer, or a tablet computer such as iPad, name your file: 'room' and save the file.
Part 2
Change the meaning of your picture and its message: convert your room into countryside scenery. Use a copy of your original file. Open
your first assignment and rename it so you have two same looking files. Modify the content of your first file ('room') so the room becomes
a landscape. You may want to use transforming tools, and maybe filters. Select a fragment of the composition and use all kinds of trans-
formations: scaling, slanting, perspective, distort, etc., so it begins looking like a landscape. Change the meaning of objects in the room, so
they become another things with different function. You may convert each item into some element of the landscape or modify it differently,
for example by using filters. For example your desk becomes a giant rock or a mountain. You may want to convert a computer to a rock,
if you are creating a nature-based landscape; or a building, if you are interested in a manmade cityscape. The curtain may become a river,
a cloud, etc. Work with portions of your composition till the viewer would feel being completely immersed in an outdoor environment,
but you have used the elements from you indoor scene. The idea is that you'll recycle the components of your picture to use them as the
transformed building blocks of the landscape. If it happens to be wintertime just now, and you look out of the window, you'll probably need
to change the colors to white:-). You may prefer to copy and paste the components from the first file to a blank document, and then copy
them one by one onto the new file (saved as the 'landscape'), while thinking about each and every object how to modify it. You do not have
to use all the parts. Some people like to draw it as a “bird's eye view” or a plan for a room. The overall character of the image will become
personal, maybe showing beautifully done shading techniques. It might be interesting to enrich the new meaning of your work by assigning
new connotations to the art works, maps, or photographs hanging on the walls of the room.
