Showing posts with label mapping. Show all posts
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Saturday, 13 August 2011

Mapping Emotion in and around the body




Link to item on Orlagh O'Brien's project at the fabulous Jotta (art & design) website
http://www.jotta.com/jotta/artists/colourandform#content-1290376

"Can 250 people describe their visceral feelings of emotion visually, and if so, would any patterns arise? In order to answer this, I developed a unique method of asking people to reflect on and describe their private feelings in a simple, repeatable manner, the results of which could be correlated visually and demographically."

"People were asked in various ways to describe their somatic experience of 5 emotions: anger, joy, fear, sadness, love. The method was hard copy to allow for unimpeded drawing, and consistent colour appearance"