The Feeling Matrix
ADAA Semifinalist 2018
The Feeling Matrix is a speculative project that presents a visual and verbal dictionary of emotions. Six animations visualize six precise emotional experiences that don’t have an equivalent word in the English Language.
Many of us have experienced these feelings but might lack the vocabulary to name them.
View the project documentation here.
Motion Graphics Illustration
Concept Development
Research
Web Design
Exhibition Design
MFA Thesis Project
Thesis Advisors
Ellen Lupton
Jennifer Cole Philips
Jason Gottlieb
Faculty Advisor
Kiel Mutschelknaus
Abraham Burickson
Maryland Institute College of Art '18
The project attempts to explore an alternative visual grammar that seeks to transcend the barriers of traditional languages. Using an abstract, expressive system, this visual vocabulary of evocation references the commonality of emotions and the elusive task of precisely defining them.
Visual Grammar
I created a framework to write the script and execute these motion pieces. Since the nature of emotions is somewhat abstract and subjective, I left room for intuition and interpretation. This allowed me to create compositions that followed a system while having a hint of ambiguity.
Forelsket
Norwegian
The euphoria experienced while falling in love or being in love.
Boketto
Japanese
The act of staring at. nothing without thinking of anything.
Hygge
Danish
The pleasant and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire with friends in the winter.
Dépaysement
French
The feeling of not being in one’s home country.
Abbiocco
Italian
The drowsiness experienced after eating a large meal.
Torschlusspanik
German
The panic experienced while suspecting that windows
of opportunity are closing with time.
Interaction
The website creates an opportunity for the viewer to experience this world more intimately. Allowing them to engage and navigate through the system, animations, insights in to the meaning of these words and most importantly how to pronounce them.
