Model Analysis

My model denotes a man sat upon a three-layered, cross-hatched construction. The man has red arms, grey legs, a grey torso with a green core embedded in it. He has a brown head with a happy face and blue flat hair.

To begin, the cross-hatched construction connotes my layered personality, which has various attributes, some contradicting each other. The layers facing different ways shows that some attributes of my personality are very different. For example, I can be lazy but I also like to work hard and learn. This laziness is shown by the fact that he is sitting down, not standing.

The green core in the torso connotes my kind and generous side. Green was chosen for this effect as it connotes nature, life, wealth, freshness and vigor. All these things being positive. It is amongst a grey colour as I can be easily angered. Grey being my choice for the negative, angered side as it is a dark colour, things such as hate and anger are commonly associated with a "dark side".

There is also a connotation to be drawn from the red arms. Both by the fact that they are red, and that the red has been chosen to be involved with this part of the body. As a connotation of red is passion, I chose it for the arms as, although I don't usually verbally share my ideas, I like to put them into my work, also I like to write, so the red connotes the passion through the hands putting ideas onto paper.

The blue hair was chosen as it connotes my loyalty. I don't like to let people down, especially friends. It was chosen to be the hair colour as it is above the head, and so at the top of my mind, therefore something I think is very important.

This all relates to Gauntlett's study of metaphors. Because the model looks nothing like me, although as shown above, it represents me very well. His study, involving asking people to make representations of themselves using Lego, is very similar to this. The study showed that it is possible to make a model of yourself without it bearing any resemblance to you.