I want to use the various line, shape and pattern to express my feeling  during traveling.

My Final work :

The sequence is :Joy,Love,Fear,Sadness, Surprise and Anger.

Joy  – Jubilant : Every time I start my trip I will be very happy. And when I am cheerful, I might jump, wave my hand, having more action than usual. I think the smooth curves can show out the energetic and cheerful feeling. And I use spring bounce around the curves just like bubbles floating around  which can enhance the cheerful phenomenon .

Love : No matter who I travel with, my family or my friends, we will get closer then any other time. That means we may get closer to their shortcomings as well.  Each  circle represent an individual and they are not perfect having some spot on them. But what make us continue this journey is love. Love is tolerance . Because of love we accept weakness of each other and support each other. Love bond us together so that we can overcome the difficulties in trip. In the same time,  we discover and enjoy  the world together. So there are curves that link each circles.

Fear – Insecure: In the journey there are countless uncertainty. Going to a place that I have never been to will make me feel nervous and insecure. I afraid I ‘ll lost my way, I afraid I will lost my wallet, I afraid I will miss the plane… My fear for the uncertainty is instinctive. When I staring at a vertex, that makes me feel dizzy and confused. It seems I am going to fall into that swirl. So I chose use swirl to represent the insecurity.

Sadness – Sorrow: At the end of the trip I usually feel I don’t want to leave the place. Because I have a lot of  happy memory with my family or my friends around there. But this sorrow is not caused by any misfortune.It is soft. I think Chinese is the best media to express the sentimental feeling. When the ink blooming on the paper, it is like the sentiment haunt me .

Surprise : I will do some research on the destination where I am about to go. I will probably know how it looks like. Although I know I will be still surprised and amazed by the splendid view. That is the significance of traveling. All the information I gain online is fragment before I reaching the destination. I still remember the feeling when I first saw sun rise in Ali Mountain. I saw picture of it before and I also imagine many times on my own. But none of them can compare to the scene I saw. I create a number of irregular shape around the circle in the center to represent the fragments. All of them forming the entirety is a great surprise of my journey.

Anger :  To me,  the anger during the trip is more like a “cold war” between the my companion and me( It usually happens between my mother and me).  As I have mentioned that we get to know more about the shortcomings of others. I maybe compromise for the first several times. But the the anger is accumulating in my heart even I don’t realize it. The black is the anger and they are assembling.  And finally it will explode.