Emblem
I chose this maze as my emblem because I think it really encompasses my mood throughout mystory. A lot of mystory revolves around searching, deductive reasoning through mystery. A maze is a thing of confusion and place. If it were to have an epigram - I don't know maybe
Come to where the confusion is.
or maybe just:
Lost?
The things that I have found myself grasping onto throughout this widesite project are:
Hypertext (which I have widdled down to an interest in what I term hypervisual thinking or visual rhetoric because of the nature of the associative thinking that guides it. Hypertext is an extension of our thought patterns, hypervisual thinking is associative thinking through pictures instead of text. A maze can represent this search in tangible form.
The concept of mystery. Induction, conduction - deduction. I search for answers both in my world, or place - and I search for them in the world of electracy as well. All still following that pattern of searching. Again, a maze is a tangible representation of searching.
I chose this graphic for its sandy bottom and because it is a visual representation of a repeating pattern across mystory - my theme really is confusion - trying to find a way to piece together the puzzle of my son's autism, moving at such an early age - opening a whole new span of questions at a young age, associative thinking - it's really a mess. So is a maze. But at the same time it is a puzzle that is perfectly put together. This mystory is a way to put the puzzle pieces together.
Ulmer says the allegory is discovered inside the mystory rather than the other way around, "The mystory inverts this process, beginning with the mapping of the popcycle, locating a repeating pattern across the discourses, and isolating the signifiers found in this pattern. The emblem then is composed by means of these signifiers, in order to discover the metaphysics and morality they evoke." (Ulmer, 250)
Okay, so I'm not perfectly put together yet, but that is the goal. Remain puzzled and skewed, but at least appear put together properly.