Group Post”a” submission

The Poster My group had submitted, which visually describes our research, from Historical reference, to Onomatopoeia, body language and semiotics. Through its presentation of columns, links have been drawn as attempts to connect the images that may relate to one another in terms of their meaning and communication.    

Poster Visual Research and Analysis

As apart of my visual research into Onomatopoeia, i have also briefly looked into other fields, such as symbolism and semiotics. Although onomatopoeia only seems relevant in terms of the relevance to the mimicking of a sounds and it’s relative object, it’s a from of sound symbolism that is used in many languages. If such visual descriptions or even the sound were repeated in another language, perhaps the idea or partial meaning can still be intact once translated.

In this way, the use of Onomatopoeia may contain attributes that can be understood universally. Even through the use of Symbols, although the reading and understanding of symbols may be something that us learnt within your cultural origins, sub-consciously, meaning can be withdrawn and at least partially understood.

The examples of semiotics that I have looked at “under my current impressions, as its still a new topic to research”, the use of words with the attachments of a visual impression, creates a dynamic that may change the “interpretation” of the word, or visually spoken voice. Much like the previous examples of Onomatopoeia, the written form of the sound with a visual impression attached to it, creates the dynamic to form a “mental sound” by the interpreter.

As for the “go to hell” baby, I thought this was an interesting combination of visuals and text as one element has an effect to change the other, in terms of the idea that’s formed when viewing the two aspects. Seeing that phrase on a “bikies” jacket for instance would create an appropriate message. Seeing a baby by itself create certain emotions and ideas, where the addition of the phrase changes the message altogether.

Perhaps, when one form has been taken out of its original context and then placed into a different environment, the message can easily be manipulated.