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.