Here’s a step-by-step example of what happened with the collage for the word “Travel.” Each of our thoughts about the image were uncovered when we discussed after finishing the collage.

Image 1. Eli’s idea was to start with an abstraction of a path moving toward the horizon that others could fill out in later turns. Of course, he couldn’t tell this idea to the group. He used blue as the background and kept the “road” white.

Image 2: Marta saw Eli’s image as an Egyptian pyramid (a great place to travel to!) and added a yellow sun and shadow to the pyramid.

Image 3: Liz saw the image as a path and thought Marta had tried to emphasize the direction of the path. With red she added emphasis to the path and birds to the sky.

Image 4: Lindsay, however saw it as a pyramid much like Marta did. With black she added small camels and a tiny person.

Image 5: Nico told us that he had seen the image as a path at the beginning, and then as an airplane wing after Liz’s turn. But by the time it came to him it was looking more like pyramid so he added desert and a sphinx in brown.

The final image is exciting because it reads as a minimal Egyptian pyramid scene, but also draws the eye right to the middle like a straight path to the horizon. Both interpretations seem to have come through, whether consciously or not!

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