Today's HAWMC prompt is to make our own version of a "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster. I'm sure I'm missing some essential cultural information here, as I'd never heard of the poster before (shoot me)! (Updated right before we hit the road--WEGO's blog provides the history lesson, and essentially what we're doing is a parody.) Additionally, as you all know by now, I'm not a very visual person--words and sounds all the way, so I wasn't very confident about this activity. Additionally, the computer's misbehaving, and I'm getting the 'spinning pinwheel' every few letters I type (and I type fast normally)... not conducive to poster creation!
OK--this was supposed to be short and sweet! I wanted my poster to recognize the "ulterior harmony" philosophy that often, unseen connections are the most powerful ones, and the importance of sound and silence in grounding me. Generally, if I'm listening to the silence behind the words and sounds, I run a little less crazy. I also wanted to include the wordplay on:
mediate/meditate/medicate
because, hard as it can be to accept, the torrent of input/output and garbled reactions needs to be mediated! I need to find ways to be in the middle of the stream, not submerged, not careening through the rapids, not running aground. Meditation and medication are both key for that. My favorite color is green, next is purple, closely followed (sometimes surpassed) by rusty orange-brown. So, here's my poster:
I love how the bird has three strands on its right wing but only two on its left! Balance despite asymmetry.
I wish I could have manipulated the font sizes--my small "mediate" corresponds to "and" in "Keep Calm and Carry On," I guess--but in a way, having it small at the center makes sense, in an inverse sort of way.
Thanks for looking! What would YOUR poster say?
I like yours, well done.
ReplyDeleteI don't have the energy to think a new one up but I think there's one out there that says a something about getting outraged instead, because I think of it as rebellious which fits my nature. ;-)
Thanks, bitt--haha, I can imagine a rebellious poster in your trademark dry humor!
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I LOVE your poster. It's beautiful and the wording is wonderful- I had a hard time coming up with what to write but you created such an elegant and calming/motivating picture!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lori--I loved your posters too! It's hard to find five words and make it work.
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