Visual Imagery Forms › Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency › Visual Imagery Previous / Next Starting Up Your Own Self Detective AgencyPart 7 - Visual Imagery 💾 Using visual imagery to express yourself, your inner working and the world around you 💾 Images have the power to convey sentiments and expressions in a way that words never can. Which images – be they pictures, photographs, stills, paintings, cartoons, abstracts, landscapes, cityscapes, buildings, people – have meaning for you? 💾 Q: Do you have a favourite image? A: 💾 Q: Do you have a favourite view? A: 💾 Q: Do you have a favourite character within an image? A: 💾 Q: What images move you emotionally? A: 💾 Q: What visuals might unsettle you? A: 💾 Q: What image(s) best represents you? A: 💾 Can you list some images that are important to you, with a little note on the side to explain how you came to choose them? Image description Reason for your choice 💾 If you found this exercise difficult, it might be worth spending some time looking at visuals wherever and whenever you get the chance, to discover what fires up your mind, senses, and emotions. 💾 Self-portrait 💾 In 2013 Grayson Perry produced a giant self-portrait, which he called ‘Map of Days’. Later it was shown in the National Portrait Gallery in London among lots of famous pictures of famous people. What was unusual about this portrait was that it didn’t reveal Mr Perry as people might have seen him before: it didn’t depict his hair, eyes, skin or teeth. This was a portrait of Grayson Perry’s inner life, as represented by a metaphorical map of a walled town. It encapsulated the artist’s self and identity, and included streets named Doing Your Best and Cry For Help, trees of education, a river of imagination and an area of paranoia. These are just a few among the maybe thousands of landmarks that make up the artist’s sense of himself. 💾 Below are some examples of therapeutic artistic imagery. 💾 💾 My own self-portrait 💾 If you were set a task to go on a journey to understand yourself through visual means, what would your initial response be? If we said this had nothing to do with art and everything to do with being a self detective, could you be convinced? The work could be any size, form, colour or texture. It could be something you never show to anyone, or perhaps you would be willing to share it with us anonymously, so that we can share it with our fellow SDs. Continue reading This interactive workbook and many more are avaliable free at My Self Detective: Log in / Sign up / Go back Previous / Next My SD › Starting Up Your Own Self Detective Agency › Visual Imagery
