I think when attaching Barthes ideas to a project like mine, I feel more lost on what exactly a possible assumed message may be. I’m not sure I can argue that my representation of the bed as an object is a “message without a code” (pg 36), because every bed I’ve encountered says something, whether that is it saying visually that it is unmade, or if the person is a clean freak. In terms of planning for my project, I was thinking of text, but as I drafted ways to write on the cyanotype paper, I found myself leaning towards using a white posca pen, but this then made me think that my audience could see my cyanotype magazine as a blueprint/ or instructional vs. the mock-magazine that it is, due to the ques given with the blue of blueprints and that of cyanotypes. plus the usage of diagram like images.
Another interesting thought I had was about Barthes secondary idea of a collection and its signifiers. As much as I am focusing on a singular object: aka the bed, the bed itself is more of an idea of where we sleep and rest, rather than what exactly creates the idea of a bed as a structure.
Ultimately, as I dissect Barthes in relation to my project, I’m finding that my idea to create the anatomy of a bed is more about communicating a relationship between body and object, than it is to advertise the object like the Panzani ad
My update for my project is just earlier in the week I secured my Nikon camera, and this weekend I will be doing my rounds and taking at least 10 pictures of my friends’ beds that way I can start planning out the magazine type format for my magazine.
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