For this equation, I decided to deal with new media, by using found images on the internet and collaging them together. It is something like the third row equation.

 

JUNGLE-HAT ME

I used a army-green colour block background to represent the land-bound-ness. I feel that army green is a great colour as everyone easily associates it to NS and how there are lots of outfield exercises(which are mostly on land). I made it in a kind of instagram manner, whereby it is taken from a top down point of view of the overlay of the items one would bring on a hiking trip – you have the jungle-hat, insect repellent, boots and binoculars. Very systematic and symmetrical, creating almost an imaginary square inside the square.

 

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FISH TANK

This frame is meant to represent the large water body that incites my phobia of water. I had ideas of river, swimming pool etc. However, I found them too plain and uncreative. Also, I feel that by using a fish tank, it is an indirect way of talking about my phobia.

In the end, I chose to make the design very simple by having a block coloured blue background. I added a collage of fishes, making the composition almost symmetrical for aesthetic purposes since fishes don’t swim like that. In a way, I was trying to balance this frame’s design with the first’s.

 

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ANT TRAPPED IN A CIRCLE OF WATER

I had this original ideas of my fear and phobia of water and portraying it by literally drowning. Which is super direct and I didn’t like it at all. I next thought up of the idea of things dissolving in water such as vitamin C tablets or coffee powder. It is quite interesting in my opinion but hard to pull off. I did like how the idea tied in to how I did not like water, and its presence often knocks me off.

I wanted to portray this idea of hopelessness. So i thought and thought and thought. Then it dawned on me. We also symbolically view ants as very capable. They are smart and strong in that they are able to carry weights far heavier than themselves. So for an ant to be trapped in a circle of water and it can’t swim, the once nothing-can-stop-it ant is now hopelessly trapped and fearful. Which draws parallels to how I feel when faced with large amounts of water.

I googled for a picture of circular water, then I changed the colours on photoshop such that it is now blue. I’m aware that there’s no blue water in real life, but I wanted to portray the sadness when faced with this adversity.