Evocation
This
house is my childhood home and is evocative of so many memories from my younger
years. Though it probably appears to
most to have a hard exterior, with the straight lines, pointed edges, and brick
surface, to me I get a feeling of softness and familiarity whenever I look at
it. It makes me feel calm and
happy. When I look at the less slanted
portion of the roof below the left-most window, I remember all the times my
sister and I would lay out there. The
carefully placed sunroof next to those windows remind me of how the sun would
shine through our entry foyer and staircase and light up the whole house.
Anthropomorphic
To me, this water bottle
anthropomorphized a dolphin. Though made
with hard plastic, with all the rounded edges it has a very soft appearance,
much like that of a dolphin. Dolphins
too have a softer feel to them with their naturally curved body. As well, the lid curves into what reminded
me of the dorsal fin of a dolphin, and the hole in the lid (though not in the
right place) resembled a blow hole to me.
All of this on top of the blue-grey color of the bottle (color of a
dolphin) and the fact that it holds water (like the dolphin’s habitat) really
aided in my discovery of a dolphin within this water bottle.
Metaphoric
This chair is metaphoric of
femininity and the dainty qualities that are often associated with
womanhood. The white color suggests a
certain pureness and innocence that historically are seen as feminine. The legs taper off into delicate tips that
make the chair seem almost weak and a little unstable, as opposed to maybe
something that is firmly and boldly planted into the ground. Also everything
has curves to it, from the top empty space, to the cushion, to the tapered
legs, much like the curves of a woman.
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