Symbols

9th March 2013

No pictures were required for this exercise; instead,I was asked to consider a list of concepts and make notes on how symbols could be used to illustrate them.

Growth
Seedlings breaking through in spring
Baby / Child – e.g baby food being fed to a happy, healthy child, baby being given a bottle by parents
Buildings under construction – e.g building site, new builds such as the Shard,
Baby, child, teenager, adult (evolution)
Several skyscrapers in the frame (aerial view)

Excess
Sweets – grabbing hands into sweets, shoving sweets into the mouth,
Fridge full of food with door not shutting
Table heaving under the weight of food with a few guests present
Several empty glasses on a table in front of a few drinkers
Throwing money in the air

Crime
Broken window – evidence of action
Vandalised street furniture
Chain being cut with bolt cutters
Someone outside their house upset (broken window in photograph)

Silence
Silhouette of person sitting down staring out to sea, across the fields
Person with their finger on the lips e.g in front of a group of children,
Empty church with few idols, person / people in prayer

Poverty
Begging bowls on the street with or without people,
Big Issue sellers standing outside shops in city centre
People sleeping rough in doorways or on a park bench
Collection of own brand food, food parcels