The scent our group was given was ‘O’, and it smelt quite feminine and fruity at first, however, as time progressed and as we thought about opening the satchel, the smell was evidently quite strong and perhaps a little masculine, as the fruity smell seemed to dissipate, and the more masculine scents came into play within my nose. The main categories which our group found to be most useful in visually representing our scents were complication, floral, and feminine.
The actual process of putting pen to physical moulding was quite difficult. Words which seemed to have a visual meaning turned out to be more complicated than I initially thought it was.
The focus of the first image was to create a simple rendition of my train of though when I smelt the scent. The main thought moved from a simple strikingly obvious feminine fruity scent, to a more masculine yet metrosexual scent with a slight fruity aspect to it. This is shown through the different levels and shapes of the surfaces. The straight cut square edged surfaces dominate the figure as it was the main overriding though, whereas the circular surfaces represents the feminine aspect with is curved surfaces being indicative of a woman’s curvaceous body.
When creating the shape in the second image, my goal was to create an emphasis on the feminine category of the scent, as the curved like surface was representative of the curvaceous and slender feeling of a woman’s body, which exacerbated the feminine aspect of the scent. The straight flat surfaces we’re a representation of facades, as the different angles of flat surfaces is representative of the different directions and emotions I felt when smelling the scent. Whereby, the biggest example of a change in direction of thought was when we moved from a feminine scent to a more masculine but still a faintly fruity scent, which implies a more metrosexual type scent.
The third image and the final image are similar to each in their idea, with the last one being the final figure that was presented. The idea and thought processes behind each design was very similar though. In that, they were both trying to convey the story of my thought process when smelling the scent. For the third image, the story begins more at the centre, at the main body of the figure, with the interestingly simple curved tube being indicative of the scent being a feminine scent, with the curves resembling that of a woman’s body (as stated above). The next piece in the focal point is the open flower with the weird twist in the middle, whereby I was trying to represent the twist and change of thought direction after opening the scent satchel. The ideas of feminine visual aspects and moved towards a more masculine aspect, which exacerbates the complicated category in which our group agreed upon. The last part in the story was just a further rendition of the masculine aspect with the (almost) straight edges of the square shape at the end of the figure, representing a clean cut shaven man.
The idea behind the final image is very similar to the third, in that the only major changes were the the focal point started with a simple line vector which twirled in the beginning to show the sense of complication and confusion when deciphering the scent, and as the trail continues, the thickness of the tube began to become larger and larger to represent the more broader and bigger body shape of a man, as opposed to the thin slender shapes of a woman, as was indicative of the thinner tubes in the beginning. The rest of the body’s shape had the same explanation as the third image, with the only modification being that the open flower had a twirling tube which was coming out towards to viewer, and getting larger and thicker as the twirl opens up more, which further strengthens the idea behind the change of thought processes of the scent being more masculine than feminine.
All in all, the task was fun, challenging, and a bit disgusting (just trying to get the plasticine off my hands). If more time was allocated, a more solid structure could have obviously been formed, but I was still satisfied with my end result.
