WEEK 2 Exercise

Representation: Here I have a picture of a real surfboard by the company super which makes really awesome boards with their shape and aesthetics. This is what it would look like in real life to our eye. We can touch and feel it, hold it, and recognize it in person. Representation is all based on reality since it is the most basic and dominating experience we have. We base what we see off of total visual experience and how we recognize it in life. When we look at this surfboard, some people will recognize for either its function or its shape. Either way, people can recognize it in person and it can't be changed from the form its in now. 

Abstraction: This heart is considered an abstract heart because it is a heart reduced to its most basic and simple looking form. A real heart would be drawn with much more detail and have veins and many other components to it that a real human heart has. This is just a plain red color in the shape of what most people recognize as a heart, even though the shape of a real heart has no resemblance whatsoever to this heart. This heart is stripped completely of its surface detail so that it can be more widely recognized. Also with the abstraction comes meaning. Most people would say that this heart, or any heart symbolizes love, but that has no connection at all with a human heart thats function is to keep us alive.   

Symbolism: This picture of a hand is more widely known as a symbol to tell pedestrians to stop while crossing the street. When the hand is blinking it means you only have a few more seconds before the light changes. This simple picture of a hand is meant to say stop, but that has no connection at all with a human hand and therefore is a symbol. It has been stripped down to the most simplest form of a hand without any detail at all, we only see a black line in the shape of a hand and everyone can recognize it. This hand has been reproduced all over the united states and at every cross street so people can remember it very easily making it widely known throughout a very large population. This symbol refers to the idea of stopping, but other symbols my refer to different things such as a political party, group, business, or institution.