Theme & Words

Our next project in Visual Communication I, taught by Jamie Gray, will consist/ has consisted of making a mindmap to narrow down subject matter and a list of words for the sophomore's next project, which is a book, displaying 9 of the words that we have come up with.

My topic is traits and feelings of those physically deformed. I googled the topic to do a little more research and the things I was seeing and discussion groups I was finding were quite sad. The words I came up with were of the following:

1. singled out
2. uneven
3. warped
4. banished
5. imperfect
6. disparate
7. detest
8. disfigured
9. emaciated
10. contract
11. hysteria
12. distress
13. tension
14. minute
15. protrude
16. attached
17. mangled
18. oversized
19. partnerless
20. uncomfortable
21. isolated
22. deviant
23. displeasing
24. perturbed
25. inferior

Here is one of the images I was looking at that some of these words spawned from:

All of the words above are words that aren't the norm. They make you think the layout of the following words would be something disturbing to look at. My goal is to take these "ugly" words and "sad" words and turn them into something beautiful, something even greater than what it's like to be normal in today's society. Beauty is either harder or easier to see in things that are different. This project will put me to the test.