Collage of various expressions within an emotion

  • Katie Kim
For each of the six basic emotions (anger, happiness, surprise, disgust, sadness and fear), I constructed a situation that would best bring out the six basic emotions in me. Since every indi- viduals perceive situations in a different way, I was curious to see if there was a general understanding or if individuals often reactedthesamewayIdotogivensituations.Todothis,Iasked a few people to make one facial expression after I read out each situation, and I photographed a facial expression for all six emotions to compare them with my own. Using the different emotion results for each situation, I collaged all the interesting characteristics that were visibly shown for each situation, then recreated the emotion into a distorted face made up with dif- ferent points from different people.
1. Anger -
When there is no mobile signal
2. Happiness -
Friday night
3. Surprise -
Waking up before alarm your alarm rings
4. Disgust -
Pigeons near you
5. Sadness -
After calling dad
6. Fear -
When it’s pitch darkness
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim
Collage of various expressions within an emotion by Katie Kim

Katie Kim
Design Student