The Feeding

Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the festival outlines:

Using an article about how food releases pleasure sensors in the brain, I appropriated medical drawings of brains and mouths to create a composition that presents the duality of feeding your emotions, brain, and self. The juxtaposition of hunger and pleasure lines up with the festival outlines.

What kind of communication approach do you use?

I use visual metaphor, visual challenge, and visual narrative.

What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of your communication?

I think that there are concrete benefits in my work to society by informing society that there are pleasure spots in the brain that activate with food. This image could illustrate to others why overeating is so easy and why eating is so pleasurable.

What did you personally learn from creating your submitted work?

I learned that juxtaposition and contrast is a strong communication device. Changing the feel and look of the images (realistic looking plates contrasted by sketches) really emphasizes the difference between them.

Why is your work, GOOD communication WORK?

My work demonstrates good communication through contrast and demonstrating the passage of time through only two frames. The state that the brain is in stays the same but the facial features on the brains change. The audience is faced with the duality between feeding their brain through feeding themselves, and what pleasure sequences within the brain the feeding satisfies.

Where and how do you intent do implement your work?

I intend to link my work with the article and inform the viewers with background information.

Here is the article I was inspired by:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/01/science_of_pleasure_food_and_drink_stimulate_the_brain.html

Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change other media with your work- how?)

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