For our second exploration we were given flat black squares to represent the words:

Order              Congested

Increase         Playful

Bold                Tension

Before I began the assignment I went to Dictionary.com and got relevant definitions for the words.

Order:  an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate

Synonyms: aligning, classification, categorization

Increase:  to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to

Synonyms: escalation, elaboration, expansion, multiplication, optimization, swell

Bold: not hesitating or fearful in the face of actual or possible danger or rebuff; courageous and daring

Synonyms: forward, adventurous, assuming, resolute, undaunted, valiant

Congested: to fill to excess; overcrowded or overburdened; clog

Synonyms: choked, closed, crammed, gridlocked, mobbed, obstructed, packed, teeming

Playful: full of fun; sportive, frolicsome

Synonyms: cheerful, comical, elvish, gamesome, impish, joyous, jaunty, mischievous, spirited, prankish, vivacious, whimsical

Tension; the state or act of being stretched or strained; the force producing deformation

Synonyms: balance, constriction, force, pressure, rigidity, stiffness, strain, tautness, tersity

From these definitions I created thumbnails to decide which ones I would enlarge with india ink.

The first is Order where I chose to show order through different shape squares are all in their proper place.

Order:

The next is Increase where I really attached the word swell to the definition so I attempted to show wave-like swelling with the squares

Increase:

The next is Bold where instead of going big to show bold I looked at it as the idea of standing out from the crowd.

Bold:

The next is Congested where following the definition reminded me of part of the drive I take to get to get to Georgia from from Virginia where four lanes go to one. this is my interpretation of what the planners wanted to happen.

Congested:

The next is Playful where the idea of children playing came to mind. And one thought more so where my friend and I when we were little would jump on his parents water bed.

Playful:

The last is Tension in this one I thought of a rubber band and and bridge, and I’m not really sure why but this is what came from it!

Tension: