schulz-metaphor



This first picture is all about holding your dreams in your hands. Jerry Uelsmann crafted this photograph with hands so that it would appear as if we were in control, as if those were your own hands. I imagine it to be that the little boy is an orphan and that is the home he hopes he would get adopted into -- in his dreams.

Secondly, the continuing picture is by Maggie Taylor. She is very good at using different materials or different pictures to craft a beautiful photograph. This is a metaphor of how business people often stick their heads in the ground and don't pay attention to nature around them, they do their business in their companies and don't pay mind to nature around them which they are harming sometimes through their companies business.

The final photograph was done by Salvador Dali. Sometimes people need their eyes to be opened to the world, and usually the people around us help us to do that, by yourself it's to difficult.

Well little girl fourteen I wish that you could see That beauty is within your heart And you were made with such care your skin your body and your hair Are perfect just the way they are There could never be a more beautiful you Don't buy the lies disguises and hoops they make you jump through You were made to fill a purpose that only you could do So there could never be a more beautiful you

I chose these lyrics because they went with the idea i had thought of. Additionally, these lyrics have deep meaning to them, and the visual metaphor I capture will not be the literal photograph of what the lyrics are saying

Jonny Diaz

These lyrics provoke the image of a girl covered in magazine photographs of "beautiful women".

Another idea similar to this, which others may think of is; the girl looking in the mirror and seeing a distorted picture of herself, while the girl actually in the mirror is beautiful just the way she is.

This quote and the research i did will help me to find a deeper meaning to images around us, for that is what visual metaphors are -- a deeper meaning. My idea for this visual image is to bring greater meaning to the quote. Through my portrayal of a girl being beaten down by media's influence, the point of the quote will be more tangible.