(AnnChen)week2: Mapping_Xiaonan Li

This is a map of feelings. It is represented in the form of stars and systems in the space, and each of the system records the feelings of one week. For each system, there is a fixed star in the middle, and its color represents the overall feelings and mood of the week. It is surrounded by 14 planets on 7 tracks, where each of the track represents one weekday, and two feeling records for each day. And the color and the size co-present the mood as follows: bigger one stands for more delightful, and red for happy, yellow for normal, and blue for sad. And the position of each planet marks when I record my feelings, which means the circle is divided in 24 parts for each hour in a day.

The reason why I chose to record feelings and use such forms is that, for some mental issues, it’s important for me to keep a record for my emotions. The data I used is the record  for last 3 weeks, and it can be seen some of them are joyful and the others are not. And the enormous space with its marvelous galaxy have always fascinated me, so if I keep recording and drawing, there will be more systems with different color composition, and there will be a special galaxy for “emotions”.

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