Abbey Teller

I really enjoyed the in class mind-mapping exercises. The two topics that I used for the assignment were masks at the 99-cent store and the lion-head doorknockers. I focused on them in the gathering project because of the different emotions they all display. I was more successful with my mind map of the masks, because I let my mind stray to random tangents, but then forced myself to eventually find connections and bring my thoughts back to the original topic. Also, the ink drawings helped me make even more connections, and eventually lead to my concept for a project on the topic. My ideal project on the masks would focus both on the generic factory-produced emotions on the masks and on the verb to mask. I would fill a room with fog and light it with different colors in different places (to represent the different basic emotions of the masks). Ideally, nobody would truly be able to see anyone else in the room, except for when the fog would clear momentarily in certain parts of the room.