Exaggeration of Physical Traits
- Jordan Chang
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 21, 2020
The first activity for the second lesson was a pretty simple one. I admit I'm not great at coming up with things on the spot so activities like this don't go so well for me within the lesson. There were some I made during the activity but I apparently emphasized incorrectly on my emotional traits rather than physical which was what was expected.
Which of your personal attributes could you embellish and develop into a symbol?
Create an imaginary image of yourself and incorporate your personal motif
In the end, this was what I came up with. For the physical feature to exaggerate, I chose my furrowed eyebrows/ expression because... I always "look concerned" as many people have told me.

So since the activity calls for embellishing the physical trait into a symbol - a sign, shape or object representing something else (and very often simpler than what it is representing) - I took the defining aspects of my furrowed eyebrows and concerned look to create this:

This is the final symbolic representation:

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