Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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Image 1.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. These images relate to each other because the "guilty" person on the right is trying to alleviate that guilt injuring themselves and etching guilt into their wrist. The image on the left is metaphorically the monster, pain, or guilt in side that they feel which is being alleviated as they cut themselves and diminishing into the air. The typeface responds to both of these images and metaphors by leaning towards the wrist, as if it is being blown by the part of the monster that is blowing. It also relates because each letter is separated, alleviating it from being bound to the rest of the letters.

Image 2.
The three images relate to each other because they show the two different sides of guilt. Guilt is the central image, the other two are both being sucked into the guilt from the outside. The image on the left is the burden that guilt bestows on the person who is suffering from it. It is showing the monster that you can become when you hold such a burden inside. The image on the right shows the relief that you can have if you let the guilt go or face it and overcome it.

Image 3.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. The image on the right is of the word "guilt" being written or etched into a person's wrist. I interpret this to be symbolic of someone cutting themselves because they are burdened by guilt and not able to handle it. The image on the left is the alleviation from the guilt once the person overcomes it or faces it. They are free and the guilt is blowing away. The word in the center relates to the images because it is leaning away from the guilt and towards the right picture, as if saying "you will be alleviated if you just face and overcome your pain".
Image 4.
Hypnogogic means to dream or to be in a dreamlike state. The image on the left is a monster being sucked or blown out of its frame. The image on the right is a wrist with the word guilt written on it or etched into in. These images related to each other because the image on the left can be the monster inside of this person who is guilty. The guilt written wrist plays off of people who cut their wrists because they are disturbed, guilty, or depressed and need to be relieved from that pain. The image on the left being sucked out of its frame could symbolize the relief that guilty person gets from hurting themselves. The type in the middle flows, connecting it with the image of the monster. The two bold letts, "n" and "g" are dripping blood which connects the word with the image on the right as well.

Image 5.
Hypnogogic means to dream or be in a dreamlike state. The image on the left is of a wrist with the word "guilt" inscribed on it. The image on the right is of a woman smelling a rose and seemingly escaping to her happy place. I interpret the image-word relationship to mean that this guilty person is dreaming of what life could be like if they weren't burdened by the pain of guilt. It can also be interpreted the opposite way of this person trying to escape into a dream world but being overcome by guilt in the process. The word hypnogogic is very airy and relates to the image on the right by seemingly blowing, and to the image on the left by seemingly bleeding. It is mirrored showing the two opposing dream-states of the painful guilt and the relieving rose.

Image 6.
Alleviate means to make easier to endure, to lessen, or mitigate. The word relates to each image because the faces are blowing away, being alleviated from the solid form that they were. The woman on the right is being alleviated from the monster that lives inside of her (the image on the left. By smelling the rose and letting her mind escape. The typeface I chose for alleviate is very airy and carefree. I chose to kern the letters out so that they were no longer toucher, alleviating them from being attached to one another.

Image 7.
Hypnogogic means "resembling a dream" or dreamlike. I thought that these surreal images both portrayed a dreamlike state. I chose these two images because they look like the reflection of the same dream in a good and bad context. The image on the left is the bad dream and the image on the right is the good dream. I also chose these two pictures because they aesthetically balance one another. There is a strong dark emphasis in the bottom righthand corner of the right image, and a strong dark emphasis in the top lefthand corner of the left image. I intertwined the actual word "hypnogogic" to its reflection to show the relationship between the  good and evil images.

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