Sentence Journal Explanation
Maria Theresa Putri
In this sentence journal visualization, I listed out all 32 of the sentences that I
randomly wrote since the beginning of semester until now. My concept is creating a
series of pictures of the words that I arrange in Adobe Photoshop. Although they
may look similar they’re different. I changed the opacity of the words according to
the relevancy of it to me in that day. So for instance, if that sentence is strongly
related to me on that day then it would be in 100% opacity. But, when it’s something
that totally random like: the dog ate, which is totally irrelevant to me that day then
the opacity would be lower (probably 20%). Thus, that’s how the sentences vary.
Also, I’ve been doing this for 4 days, so that each day the sentences that may be
relevant to me would be different. After I did all 4, I look back and compare them to
see if there’s any sentence that’s relevant to me in all four days. Turn out there are
couple of sentences that keeps on appearing in 100% opacity; such as: craving for
sweet, I want this semester to be over, etc. This shows my mood for the past few
days. I’ve been stressed out with all the finals and whenever I’m stress I would
always craved for something sweets. Furthermore, I change the composition by
arranging the sentences differently every time. There’s no real concept in this
method, I just moved them wherever I want each time. All of them turned out to
look scattered all over the place. Probably it’s also because of the stress that I tend
to look at things messy. Nonetheless, it’s a fun project and also it’s interesting to see
how many random sentences that actually relevant to my life at the moment.