Composing or Writing? You Decide

This first project threw me for a small loop, or maybe just a little speed bump, in the fact that it was something a bit out of my comfort zone, however its always good to step outside of the norm and at least try something new. For project one, I chose the key term circulation, demonstrating its meaning by recreating a diagram of blood flow in the human body from the heart, to the lungs and kidneys. Each organ represented a different artifact, all three of which together are meant to show one somewhat unified definition. The artifacts I chose to use in my exhibit were Ed Sheeran’s third album Divide, the Vinyl record of the album, and Apple Music. If you’d like the full effect of what this looks like, feel free to click here.

This project specifically is a great example of what I believe to be composing. Composing and writing are two pretty similar topics, however I think composing is in a sense more of an art, or much more practiced and created with intent or purpose. That’s not to say writing is never done with purpose, but I think when someone sits down to compose something they’re putting in a lot of prior thought, and are gearing their work towards a more specific audience. All of this is a lot of what completing project one felt like; planning, deciding who your audience was going to be, then how to properly appeal to them with colors, layout, design, and choice of artifacts.

I especially think it was interesting seeing how so many of these terms still interacted in the process of making the project around only one term. Even though I was focusing solely on the term ‘circulation,’ I was still applying other terms to my project in order to improve and ensure that it was done properly. I had to think about and plan the design for my exhibit, decide what materials I would actually end up using to create the final product, pay attention to who my audience was and make sure everything not only appealed to them but made sense, and of course make certain that through all of that I was still properly explaining the key term I chose to focus on.