Lily looked around at what was once her childhood home. Suddenly hundreds of memories began to flood her mind. The small school house where she found a passion for reading. The general store she would so often go to with her younger brother to buy sweets without their mother's knowledge. The beautiful park where a boy named Marshall gave Lily her first kiss. And of course her parents' home. The home she learned to cook in, with the help of her mother. The home she read to her father in every night.
Everything was gone. There was nothing left to reassure her that any of it once existed.
She had been away from home for three years. But it was clear that it could not have taken more than one day, more than one terrible storm, to take her entire life away from her.
Structuralist Analysis of the photo:
In his "Course in General Linguistics," Ferdinand de Saussure says the "language is a system of signs that express ideas." If that is true of language, the same can be said of any other system of expression, such as art, specifically this photo. Language, according to Saussure, is constructed of signs. These signs are the combination of concepts (signified) and sound-images (signifier).
This photo is also constructed of signs. The most prominent sign in the photo being a woman. The other signs in the photo are secondary to her, because she is in the forefront. These other signs are the sky. the hills in the distance, the water, and the one that i chose to focus on for my word picture was the emptiness. I chose this photo because I felt i sense of emptiness while looking at it and this emptiness was conducive to creativity. Because there is not much going on in the photo I could "fill" it with whatever signs I wanted to create with the woman's memories.
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