Tuesday 8 March 2011

Further development of concept.

After first looking into the very abstract link between opposites and a game on old nokia phones, I wanted to look into other possible routes that my project could take. From this I went back to looking at the subject of opposites in my original notes and thought about its definition, one stood out as a good possibility for visual experimentation.


  • being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles"
  • of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves"
  • antonym: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
  • moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions"
  • reverse: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true"
  • opposition: a contestant that you are matched against
  • altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade
  • face-to-face: directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table"
  • inverse: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse"
  • diametric: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions"
Although not the exact idea I wanted to take, it sparked me into thinking about oxymorons. Words placed together which are directly opposed. 

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