The original images..........

This is the old one *lol* the original idea

This would be cool to share with the rest of the world - progress. *lol* originally the idea was to just get the message out thoroughly... However I knew that even though I have 18 images here-- some of them just didn't work. So... I had to make some sacrifices - Aesthetically some of them didn't work with only one icon (those image thingys), so I had to add something to it- because what does a 'music note' for example mean to one person? Does it mean that I hate it or love or just neutral? - like what does it bloody mean? haha.
So the image of the cat and the heart was pretty good I thought- most of my friends were able to see what that represented... But I knew that if I did it for some of them it would look rather 'ugly'.... At this point I had a choice between two things: looking nice or having a piece of work that actually conveys the message.

I chose the second option.

In my mind I knew that there were tons of people who did this in the past, however I chose to not use text in my self-portrait because I wanted to see just how powerful icons are without text... Because icons - unlike text (language) are universal (kinda... haha- that's another story altogether)

Anyway, so I chose the longer route I suppose- because finding the right icons were difficult and trying NOT to convey the wrong idea was even harder. *LOL*

to be continued... Getting sleepy now haha.