Visual Language

For the past few weeks our class has been doing a visual language task where you have to put together a collage to show where you want to be, what you want to do etc. Here is my artwork I did.

Visual language explanation

For visual language I incorporated a lot pictures that had some similarities between another. Here are what my symbols represent.

I wanted to be a singer, dancer and actor in movies so I included negative film strips, a photo of a hip hop dancing girl and two of my favourite singers Jennifer Lopez, otherwise known as J Lo, and Beyoncé Knowles, also known as Queen B or R n B Queen.

Not only are these two women beautiful and talented but they are very polite and inspirational. They are my idols. I have included a baritone saxophone (bari) and a guitar because I would like to carry on playing bari and learn guitar. If you look right next to J Lo’s head on the left you will see a stage which shows that I want to end up there singing for people.

The two pictures that show car interior and the outside of a car represent what I want my car to roughly look like. I would a mustang or a BMW i8.

There are three mansions on my dreamboard. They represent my dream houses. I want a pool and a lot of room inside overlooking outstanding scenery.

I want to travel all around the world so I stuck a picture of a plane and another of a globe with buildings going all around it. By the time I am around 60 I would have liked to travel to most countries of the world. I would like to experience at least 10 extreme theme parks.

There are some islands I would like to see such as Rarotonga, Samoa and Fiji. There are two photos not far from each other that show a beach and a beachy kind of resort.

Home is where my family are so I incorporated some of my heritage and culture into the photo. I added an actual photo of my Marae Whakakotahitanga. It is well known as Te kotahitanga, Rae O Te Papa and Tirohia. I added a photo of me in a kapa haka uniform. The photo was taken at the Hauraki Kapa Haka Competition in 2015. That represents me being Maori and my love for kapa haka. I wanted to reinforce kapa haka because that is one of the places I want to go. To Te Matatini like some of my family did. The photo of the mountain is Rangitoto which is what my Maunga (mountain) is. That represents my hometown.

I love my bestfriends so I added a photo of two friends taking a selfie to show that those are mine and my friends goals. I added a photo of my best friend holding a flower with me and my hair flowing in the wind. There are a few more little photos of my cousin and I taking photos. That represents the bond between my family and I to show the content between one another. The photo of me with a red-ish pink-ish flower shows the vibrancy I want to have in my life. The three other photos of me were added just to show my love for life and freedom.

The words shown on my visual language are the mottos or things I want to live by. Not so much the perfect though because no one and nothing can be exactly perfect.

There are three last pictures I have not yet explained. The candle is to reinforce the word below family. The converse show is to represent my love for shoes. I want to have a variety of shoes for every occasion I might have. The hologram looking phone is to show what my phone goals are.

Raiha