Journal Exercise for 2/11/2010

So here are a few of thrown around ideas put into context:

Black plastic combs in a photo frame:

• The color of the combs would be a plain, generic plastic black. The color of the photo frame would be a very ornate gold with a rococo-esque relief design
• The original function of the combs being to comb/fix hair. The original function of the photo frame is to hold photographs, By placing the combs in the photo frame it would alter the meaning of each. When we look at photographs we look at things, at the surface, not the feeling or the story behind the photo; it looks pretty, but what we see may in fact be something posed or fixed up...I don't know too much about this idea since it would contradict my whole love of photographs. I would probably stick with it if I felt differently about the concept.

Dried Elmer's Glue rolled up into a lot of tiny balls

• The color of the glue would be white of course, the shape would be random, maybe the little balls would be all strung together to form squiggles and loops
• The original function of the glue is to stick things together, usually to create one thing. It keeps things in place, yet when wet is very runny. By rolling them up into tiny balls it would slightly alter the meaning of unity by making them all separate little bodies of glue. By forming squiggles and loops it would alter the meaning of steadiness by showing an unsteady pattern

Piñata made out of blue jeans/denim

• The color of the jeans would be blue, obviously. Jeans tend to have a rough, almost industrial texture. Piñatas are usually very brightly colored and covered with tissue paper.
• The original function of blue jeans is clothing, mostly pants. Blue jeans are known in pop culture to be ubber American, like the white picket fence and apple pie. Levi's brand jeans were the first jeans, and they were designed to be worn by mine and industrial workers, which meant they were/are advertised as long last-lasting and durable. By making a piñata with blue jeans it would change the meaning of both because piñatas are a Mexican tradition, not American. Also, they are made to be disposable and broken easily which would contradict the Levi's theory...If i did this one I would be sort of repeating myself with the whole piñata idea, but I think I like this one the best.