Maps as Metaphors

 

Last Monday, Mr.Brewer assigned a project about maps to our Theory of Knowledge class. The project was to contain some sort of geographical map, in this case, a map of specific placements with meaning to represent our life. At first, I needed clarification of what I wanted my end product to look like. I had many ideas in my head of what to do, but it took a week to come to a conclusion on what I wanted to produce. 

In the end, I came up with the idea of making a cutout of a human body. If you think about my map as the earth, the ocean is the newspaper and the land is spaces of pink. The newspaper represents the media and how it affects my whole way of being. In a literal sense, the newspaper holds the information the news source only wants you to know. I thought of this to be an underlying meaning for my vulnerability. Because the media has altered my perception of myself, the pink demonstrates how it has changed me in the specific places it is set in. For instance, the media has affected the words that come out of my mouth, which I wrote in the pink. It also states how I deal with it such as words of affirmation. 

I am really proud of how this looked in the end. I presented this on Monday with a former disclaimer that not everyone will understand this map, but it makes sense to me and that is all that matters. I created this map to reflect who I am and how the media has changed me in the best way I knew how and I think I did a pretty good job of it!