In groups we were asked to come up with ideas surrounding the words ‘Freedom and Limitations’. Immediately we were drawn to opposites. We were constantly thinking of words then thinking of there counterparts. Such as Sound/Silence, Life/Death, Capture/Escape, Female/Male. Keywords were a large part of the mind map, the words allowed us to think of ideas and worked as a starting point to develop any thoughts we had.

One of the ideas I had was Art. Art has both freedom and limitations. Art can sometimes limit us as we are often forced to paint, take a photo, draw. Only in recent years artists have had full freedom to express themselves. Using objects and manipulating old photos artists have given new meanings to objects that already existed. This made people think differently about art.

Another idea  was money. Money can give people the freedom to travel, have new experiences, get education, indulge in materialistic things and most of the time give a better quality of life. However money can also cause a lot of pain and limit people. If someone doesn’t have much money that can stop them achieving what they want to achieve. For example many homeless people are at a dead end as they don’t have enough money to get themselves suitable clothes for a job interview and they are only living off the money that they are given by people. They are being limited by money, because in today’s society with money comes power.

For this upcoming project on Freedom and Limitations I have decided to focus on the constantly changing and evolving environments found in nature that comprises of the Earth, Animals, Humans and Plants.  Because of this constant change I wanted to explore the notion of how the Earth is every bit as different 1 second ago as it was 1 year ago, or 100 years ago.  In this, I want to explore the impact of change found in nature as the old is replaced with the new but also the process of change in the natural world.  This could extend to to the sea, the land and the sky in terms of change in the Earth.  But also how plants and animals are reliant on this to survive which links to the idea of humans who also are key stakeholders in how we affect and are affected by the change in the world in which we live in.  Furthermore I want to explore the relationship between all these factors and how they are somewhat reliant off each other to pursue and venture into the unknown as new replaces old.  This represents to the idea of how freedom for change and evolution in nature is limited because change only occurs as something old becomes extinct and so the idea of freedom in nature is limited.  This is because the new areas and features found in nature set to replace the old, will too one day become old and outdated itself.