I Live Here
Like everyone, as soon as I read the collection I was able to understand and connect with all the journal entries. It is hard not to connect. I did not know what to concentrate on for my presentation. It was obvious that the journals employed all the semiotic concepts we learnt thus far. So I decided to read the journals several times so that I can gain a deeper understanding of what is going on. I found that by the third time I had to consciously ask myself semiotic questions so that I can purposely look or attempt to examine the entries on a deeper and ore mprofound level. By doing this I was able to detect certain themes that may have been easy to overlook. I constantly questioned the author why they chose a certain color and why the depictions of certain names or animals and if there was a significance to the order of the journals and the pages within the journals. To my pleasure, I found that there was an element of spirituality/Religion which further reinforced the idea of multimodal semiotics.
You see… the journals are meant to appeal to all our senses and to a diverse group of people. If you’re a visual person then the author provided that avenue, if you are a text and information personality, then she provided that, if you’re a religious person or maybe need to connect to something deeper than text and image, she provided that avenue. So basically she is reaching out to all avenues of understanding. Definitely, this was a very simple but yet complex presentation of what could have been a very bland and dense presentation of the displaced people of the world.
