semiotics project progression – 26-5-17
Last night I had a bit of a brain wave about my project. One of the topics I was initially interested in exploring was the signs of emotion. I got thinking about signals on the body that communicate emotion. Every single body is different and some people show emotions in different ways, and imperfections on the body are one way emotions can be communicated. Some imperfections are universally known and linked to certain emotions, for example, puffy red face/eyes usually communicate that someone has been crying, and that can be linked to either sadness or sometimes happiness. Although certain imperfections sometimes only trigger attention from certain people. For example stress/nerves can trigger me to itch specific points on my body, and only someone who knows me can tell when I am particularly stressed or anxious by how much these patches have flared up. This has intrigued me to delve into finding out how other peoples body imperfections/ticks communicate certain emotions. I’d like to photograph these marks on peoples bodies and potentially make a photo book, or even create a video but I’m not sure what that would look like at the moment. I’d also like to look into scars and how they have stories and memories behind each one that some people know but others don’t.