Thursday, September 22, 2011

Visual vs Symbolic Language


Green.
Efficient.
Self-sustaining.
New.
Powerful.
Saving Money.
Stopping global warming.
New Energy.
New way of living.
Technology.
Beneficial to the environment.
This image shows the sun setting over a solar farm.  I get is a warm positive “saving the world” type of feeling when I sit back and look deeper into the photograph.  There are little images towards the bottom of this photograph that have several images of “green” money saving items like florescent light bulbs and wind farms.  In this time of our economy the environment is extremely important to people as well as saving money.  Solar farms and efficient light bulbs are included because that’s what people think will save their wallets, our economy and the environment. 
The sun is a constant source of energy for the earth and everything that is living.  This is why it is the most visually appealing part of the picture.  Your eye instantly goes to the sun because it is the brightest most relevant part.  The suns energy is used through these solar powered fields and also represents green technology.  The suns power can be made into all of these different other types of power that we use today and some of those different ways to use the suns power is shown at the bottom of the image.  The suns power is hard to replace as we have relied on it since the beginning of time, it has been providing its energy, heat and life.  This photograph is formed around the sun; this could go along with any natural energy source.  If we wanted to we could put a dam producing power up in the right and corner or a wind farm.  All of these different sources of energy could be used as the energy in this photograph.

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