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As we move through a world that is never-ceasing, all-encompassing flow, consciousness brackets all this stimuli, excludes most of it, and shapes the chosen bits into coherence and. certainty, integrating it with what we know—or think we know—and responding. Design mimics intentionally what consciousness does automatically; bounding and carving up a flow of events, giving it a beginning, a middle and an end, orchestrating it into a coherent pattern language. For both consciousness and its manifestation in design, the construction of stories is primal. The final story matrix uses combinations of abstract form, drawings, manipulated found images and photographs along with the letters of a root action word. Parts of the work incorporate transformation, substitution, and transition boards, in addition to a chosen typeset. The story matrix was built off of visual and linguistic research coming together to create a unified visual concept.
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COL·LAPSE
/KƏˈLAPS/
verb:
collapse; 3rd person present: collapses; past tense: collapsed; past participle: collapsed; gerund or present participle: collapsing
1. (of a structure) fall down or in; give way.
(of a lung or blood vessel) become flat and empty with the walls fallen inward
2. (of a person) fall down and become unconscious, typically through illness or injury.
sit or lie down as a result of tiredness or amusement.
3. (of an institution or undertaking) fail suddenly and completely.
(of a price or currency) drop suddenly in value.
4. fold or be folded to fit into a small space.
compress a displayed part of (a spreadsheet other electronic document).
5. an instance of a structure falling down or in.
a sudden failure of an institution or undertaking.
a physical or mental breakdown.
Fall
Cave in
Subside
Fall down
Sag
Slump
Settle
Give
Crumble
Crumple
Disintegrate
Faint
Lose consciousness
Break diwn
Fail
Come to nothing
Revolution
Inward
Chaos
Loss of order
Economic crash
Collapse of an empire
Mental collapse
Collapse of the patriarchy
Collapse of beauty standards
