weekly response 7 and 8

Most squares contain images to represent the pieces of information given to us. All expect for mine, due to the fact that the images given to the class when it was my turn, somehow provoked words to best describe them instead. All of the squares contain multiple images or words, except for one, where only one image appears. There does not seem to be a trend amongst all four squares, its interesting to note that I can only remember what was asked in one of the squares, the one where medications and assorted pills are drawn. All contributions are different and show how different people think, or how they would choose to best represent the information/words given to us.
It is very hard to put the various squares together to form anything other then four individual spaces holding different representations within them. They could each serve as clues to a mystery, seeing as how they don’t directly bring the original terms or images to head, but if given time and maybe the context of the information, one could see how the original images and how we as the students interpreted them correspond with each other. It may seem more apparent then.
When connecting this assignment to the main themes that Lasn discusses, its easy to see that production and consumption do somewhat influence the representations that formulate in our heads when we are asked to choose a way to depict the various words or images that were given to us. I would say that about half of the representations that were used are influences by what we associate them with, using what we see around us in our every day lives. Some of the images although hard to recognize when standing alone, are surely influenced by something that has occurred, or something that is visually recognizable to the individual responsible for the representation. I believe that this would be the outcome of such an experiment seeing as how associations are made between objects and somehow resonate in our minds to correspond with other objects or ideas, even if we don’t intend for them to do so.
It is fun to see how different people respond to such information, some is taken more literally, the medication for example, very recognizable pills and pill containers, maybe even a doctor appear. Explanation marks, seem to represent some type of excitement, whereas other images and words don’t clearly spell out the original image. The words however do seem to spark certain visual cues, “long” would appear to mean some type of long line would have been the original image, or “flower” representing a more organic flowery shape.
I think it would be interesting to go back, and claim who was responsible for each square on our papers, and discuss the images that came to mind and why we used what we did in order to best represent the information given to us.