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