Ideas for thesis

For my thesis project I want to focus on the complexity of emotion and how different situations or objects can trigger various emotions. I am interested on how one image can evoke different emotions from different viewers. The way I plan to execute my thesis project is by combining both image and text to portray the various ways emotions interact with our lives.

One approach that I have for this project deals with creating two-dimensional wheels, one big wheel and a smaller wheel that will be placed on top of the larger one. The bigger wheel will display sixteen images of events, objects and people, as the smaller wheel will display multiple emotional words such as joy, pain, sorrow, guilt, etc. The viewer will be able to spin the smaller wheel that has the text and match it with the image from the big wheel however they like. I am not really sure about the scale of the wheel and how big it would be, but for now I am thinking it will be some where to 36 x 40inches.

My second approach deals with making a series of twenty-four cards. On the front of each card there will be an image of an event, object or a person. On the back of the card there will be one emotional word. The viewer will be encouraged to construct a scenario relating the word with the image. With both my designs I seek to encourage the viewer to interact with the art piece. I want to surprise the viewer and make them formulate their own scenarios in response to the image and text. Each card will be 5 x 5 inches.

Front: ImageBack: Text