8. Ideas for Project 3

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Having written a set of short essays touching on storytelling character of perception and workings of the mind, I thought I could take a step back, look at it from perspective, and illustrate what was going on inside the reader’s mind when going through the essays (or in my mind when trying to connect hunches together). A zoom out, or perhaps a zoom in, or maybe jumping to a different plane of interacting with the subject.

At first, I described the nature of human perception in a series of writings. And now, I can treat them as a prompt for a mechanism I was describing, I can approach the activity of processing information taking place during writing/reading as a phenomena that I am going to investigate or depict in the next task.

What I have in mind is something with a character of infographics, showing the overlaps, or links, or threads of thought (with some indications perhaps, giving an idea what the image is trying to show). It could also be mind maps, or diagrams of a thinking process.

It doesn’t need to be accurate. In fact, it doesn’t need to be true at all. It can be a simulation/illusion of infographics. The mind will perceive the images as valid and believable anyway, if only they give the impression of being based on specific information. And the impression is all I need. In fact, it would be just another example of the phenomenon that I am trying to show/grasp.

When browsing through Pinterest in search of a relevant graphic style for the subject of a thought process, my mind instantly projected the potential content or onto the form or language of graphics made in different styles. I hope to evoke that impression/feeling in my graphics, along with complexity, vagueness and organic character of the subject matter.

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On Behance, I found a company Colorpong providing bundles of vector graphics, and a few sets called ‘Dataism’ feature abstract graphics inspired by visual language of infographics. This is more or less the approach I want to take.

https://www.behance.net/colorpong

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A good reference are also Charles Jenck’s ‘Evolutionary trees’ depicting the process of development and overlaps in thought movements over decades.

https://archidose.blogspot.com/2015/03/charles-jenckss-evolving-evolutionary.html?spref=pi

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Another good example would be Joris Putteneers’ ‘Logic of evolution’, having abstract, organic character (just like a thought process) combined with technical descriptions spread around the image which makes it look more technical, thought through and gives it some legitimacy.

https://www.cgarchitect.com/features/articles/0a2adb5d-interview-joris-putteneers

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I also found interesting examples of mind maps by Martha Rich which get across a spontaneous, messy nature of brainstorming, and simultaneity of ideas in one’s mind.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/7089883/Mind-Maps

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When it comes to depicting the character of vague hunches, I believe abstract hazy visuals like Ana Montiel’s could be a great base, and overlaid with some indications, descriptions and captions could balance out informative nature of infographics with unclear character of emerging and overlapping ideas.

https://anamontiel.com/FIELDS-17-silence-speaking-its-own-tongue

https://www.behance.net/gallery/66315731/Holographic-hi-ress-backgrounds