16.A Picture of Morocco

A chose this picture of a ashtray because it is hand made, also because it kind of reminds me of the moroccan culture with all these beautiful shapes and colors painted around it. I also didn't find any of these ashtrays in other countries like France or Spain, which means it represents Morocco in a way.

15.Signifier 2

Again, same thing as cigarettes, when I see a bottle of water, i automatically think of drinking water. This is because when i was young, my parents always stressed out to me that I had to drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day in order to stay healthy.

14.Signifier 1

I noticed a few weeks ago, when i see a package of cigarettes, i automatically want to smoke, same thing when i see someone smoke.

13.Branded!

I didn't notice it until today, most of my clothes are GAP products. I'm definitly branded, probably because in my subconscious, GAP means Gamer And Proud.

12.Goal

To back up my mission statement, I need to completely focus on my studies, work hard, make a strict, weekly schedule in order to not excessively mess around with video games, clubs and parties. Finally, and probably one of the most important goals i have is to get rid of my procrastination which has really becom more of an illness than a problem.

11.Mission Statement

As the youngest member of a family consisting of 4 children who are all already working except me and whose parents are already old, i strive to earn my diploma in Al Akhawayn University without making any mistakes along the long road that is graduation, not only to have a career and foresee a bright career, but most importantly to make my parents proud. (And relieved of all financial duty to be completely honest)

10.Figure/Ground Relationship

For this post, I used the same picture as the one on Post number 7 because the unified swabs forming letters on top of the ground reflect quite well the figure/ground relationship, even when proximity is involved.

9.Closure

In this picture, i tried to form a complete square using napkins. Then, I cut some of them to see if i still see the picture as a square, which i still do. I wanted to use real objects to do this instead of creating one via paint/computer to see if the effect is the same, which it is.

8.Uniform Connectedness

Again, i used swabs to illustrate how easy we can seperate in our minds these swabs into 3 seperate groups because of the difference in color, even though they are all near each other.

7.Proximity

In this picture, i used swabs to show how, when put together, they can form uniform letters when adjusted and how each group when seperated can make a word.

6.Backlighting

This picture pretty much shows the backlighting effect with reflections of light behind and around the bottle.