Collect as many examples of visual metaphor as you can find.
Blood red poppies, growing around the bodies of the fallen soldiers.
Fields of poppies showing images from the past to remind us of what has happened
Classic poster from past showing queue at the employment office as people not working
U.S. National Archives about 1940s’
Poster Comparing Political Parties To Characters From The Wizard Of OZ
Poster comparing the road we are heading down to the road to Mordor
Poster comparing the road we are on to the rail line heading to Auchwitz concentration camp
Poster showing different options for different political parties
Poster using David Cameron as Gene Hunt from Ashes To Ashes a tv show set in the 80’s
I have chosen Economic catastrophe for this exercise and I have made a spider diagram.
I have created a drawn visual list of objects
In a supermarket, a man with a large trolley but only can get a bag of potato as he empties his pockets there are only 3 coins left for the potato.
The shelves are bare in the supermarket.
A drawn visual list of subjects.
This scale balance is going down to a potato. Another pound is trying to help the one which can’t buy a potato. A pound equals a bag of potatoes in the past.
In China, there is a famous TV drama program which has used the shell of a snail as a metaphor for the humble abode of the poor people. I am using a snail’s shell (Lots of bills stick on it.) to convey the people suffering under Economic catastrophe and sleeping rough.
I have shown my husband my drawing and he understand all these pictures.