Wednesday, November 3, 2010

How to make spaghetti!

I was babysitting when I did this and one of the little boys, William, is 2. So the whole time I was drawing he would tell me what everything in the picture was. It was interesting to get the perspective of someone who not only doesnt read but also probably doesnt know too much about making spaghetti. He knew that the pot was a pot and the sauce was sauce but he wasnt sold on te spaghetti. The first time I drew the pot he knew what it was but then the rest of the times if I drew it a little different he would ask what it was. Also when I was trying to show the boiling water by drawing steam he asked what it was so I told him steam and he told me no its smoke. That made me think about a non english speaking person looking at this because i just assumed they would be able to make the same inferences that I made. So even if it did resemble smoke a little bit it would still get the point across that it was steam. However you cannot assume this. For all I know they could think I meant smoke and that could be confusing. I wanted to use a generic sauce (Ragu) so that I could draw the lable. I figured someone could in fact recognize a lable that they commonly see at the store.
Over all I enjoyed this project. I think it was interesting to see how someone elses brain works. Especially since I got to gain the perspective of a 2 year old.

No comments:

Post a Comment