Meshes of the Mind
Pictogram
Daniel WAI 衛嘉健
Student of SM2105 Narrative Strategies and Aesthetics of Time-based Media
Abstract
I wanted this pictogram to be able to convey the dream-like narrative of Meshes of the Afternoon. So I created a timeline with another axis used to represent the surreal nature which dreams tend to have. I started using a method similar to Freudian psychoanalysis to determine what symbols might have significance. But then I placed the final frame of the film to overlay the entire pictogram as the total culmination of events, and as the film collapses into the final image, redefining the events that took place in the rest of the film. This chaotic sea of images which seemingly have no relation between each other in fact reflects the nature of this film. This sea of emotions and thoughts that we are treading through to find the end to trying to understand this dream.
