Schwab-+Visual+Metaphor



The three images I chose for their intense compositions and overall bizarreness. The red and yellow photo was done by Sandy Skoglund and attracted me from its dynamic diagonal-radial composition and intense color scheme. It is titled "The Cold War" and features many soldiers and bombs being aimed at a man in a yellow blanket with a yellow dog. I like the middle piece titled "Apocalypse ii" by Jerry Uelsmann because of its bizarre leading lines of the inverted tree down into the people. The sheer black of the sky looks like it's heavy and that it's going to fall and smoosh the humans which is also enjoyable and goes along well with the title of the piece. The final image is by Maggie Taylor and intrigued me because it was a bunch of 'gentlemen' with their heads in the ground. The colors are very rich and clean and I think the metaphor being conveyed here was supposed to be a 'get your head out of your ass' feeling but a bit more sophisticated than that.

The song lyrics I'm choosing are from Polarize by Twenty-One Pilots

"Those stairs is where I'll be hiding all my problems"

This isn't really an obvious metaphor but I think it still counts because his problems are not really hiding in stairs.

I want to superimpose a bunch of faceless figures at the bottom of the stairs with one possibly backwards facing figure at the top. I want to use a lot of emotion-evoking colors. I interpret this line as him hiding his problems and woes inside dark places of his mind.