Task: To come up with three visual metaphors related to passage chosen

 

Choosing a short passage on Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho, I picked out a sentence — “Let us, then, be masters of our tongue.” — to work with. I interpreted the sentence as how we should be in control of our own words. By tackling on the different ways words are being used, I decided to do a series for this project.

 

There are different ways of communication (how words are being used), hence I decided to use the mouth, keyboard and pen respectively as the main subjects of each visual metaphor.

I decided to use mouth as the first main visual identity because speaking is a way of communication that goes a very long way back. It is the prime method when it comes to how words are being used. Hence I figured it would be the most important of all three, therefore I put it as the first subject for the whole series. 

 

I tried exploring with using pen tips as teeth initially to give out the idea that it hurts. However I felt that the idea do not work as the mouth is already the main subject of how we should be in control of our words. By using pen tips, it will clash with the main subject, as pen (writing) is also another way of communication. Hence I decided to remove it and switched it to knife tips instead. Knife tips are sharp and it is a more obvious visual identity than pen tips that gives the idea that it will hurt. 

I decided on using the keyboard as the second of the whole series first because technology nowadays are so advanced. Most people spend their time typing more than writing. Hence I used keyboard as the second main subject, followed by the last which is the pen.

 

All three of the visual metaphors had the knife tips as the secondary visual identity as I wanted them to be all the same so that it would look unified.