Thursday, September 20, 2012

Meaning 2


Representational

The role as a whole is represented as bicycle tires, tubes, and wheels making up a chair.
The materials used may encourage a sense of excitement in a user or viewer who is familiar with and a fan of bicycles.
It relates to the abstract level by being built with non-conventional materials, symbolizing a bicycle.


Abstract

The wheels, tires, and tubes are functionally abstracted by being curved, bent, and shaped into a usable chair. 
Despite the materials being abstracted, the viewer will immediately understand what is being expressed and be able to appreciate the unique idea.
This abstraction symbolizes a wheel and at the same time, the chair represents a wheel through the use of materials.


Symbolic

The chair maintains a role of symbolic communicative purpose.
The chair may cause the viewer to reminisce about past experiences riding a bicycle.   
It relates to the abstract level because of the way it is manipulated, this is not the natural shape of a wheel, yet it still is decoded as one. Because of the use of materials, the chair clearly symbolizes a bicycle wheel.  

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