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Chaos - Everything Is Connected - further research

While researching for my project I started with interpreting the word "chaos" define it's meaning, reaching the final conclusion, that chaos can be negative but also a positive word, because chaos is the beginning of everything - starting from the creation of the World as we know it for example. I researched some philosophical, psychological, mathematical and art interpretation of the word.

At first my idea was to create a project, that would show how we as humans create, how our brain works and how we reach a final idea through all the chaos of information that flows through us daily. That was my idea until the point that I talked with a few photographers about my idea, showed them my previous works, and they actually liked my "Dreams" project very much. One proposed me to actually do something about the environmental topic, and more specifically on the way we, the people communicate with the nature in a city environment. How there is less and less nature in the city and we actually forget how specific places looked like because of too much buildings everywhere. And I got interested, because this is a major problem in my country for example - there is too much construction and no nature, less and less parks and if there are some - they don't look like they're supposed to.

Chaos - Everything Is Connected

As I was doing my research on chaos, I came across some very interesting information. First I found a Mandala Design Handbook, and it had some very specific and interesting design, which included nature elements.
I chose to include it's symbols in my project, because despite it's chaotic look it is actually something symbolizing unity, wholeness and connection with the nature.

 As we walk through big cities we see less and less nature, there are many places where beautiful landscapes, nature... are ruined because of human activity, and we have to look for nature in big cities, so my idea is to invert that. For example a landscape of a forest with almost transparent people in it, so you have to look very close to see them. Something like a game. As you have to stare in the picture with the bird to see the eye inside. I will very soon send you ready results, I am just very careful in choosing the right photographs for this purpose.

So my idea is all this photography to be a campaign aiming to gain awareness to the fact, that "everything might seem a chaos, but it is all connected".

Chaos moodboard

I've decided to collect some inspirational images in an album using Pinterest:

Chaos moodboard

Chaos - Definition & Inspirations

Chaos

cha·os/ˈkāäs/

Noun:

1.        Complete disorder and confusion. 2.       Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.

The word itself brings is the idea of undefined order.  Despite the common idea : “chaos” taken for a negative word, there are some positive sides as well.

Chaos is the origin of order. Without chaos there is no order. Just like light and darkness or sound and silence.

Major Project Brief

Major Project Idea

I decided to continue including photography in my future projects. This time I decided to include typography and maybe bits of illustration. As I was brainstorming for an idea for my major project, I realized, that the process of brainstorming and thinking itself is a very interesting subject. I came up with so many ideas, that I thought, that this is a complete chaos. And there was my idea - "CHAOS". The process of inventing, creating, thinking...it is all bits and pieces of information, that we collect, and after some time we use, but before we decide how, when and what part of it - it is a chaos in our heads. 

Design Project B: Book Design - DREAMS

So here is the final result of my second design project. I have created a portraiture photography book on Dreams. Here are some snapshots of how my printed book looks like, and Concept Development presentation on how I came up with the idea and how I actually made it.