Claire's Mood Ring Chart

Claire's Mood Ring Chart. While sometimes criticized for its superficiality, this movement was crucial in breaking the dogmatic hold of modernism and opening up the field to a wider range of expressive possibilities. The single greatest barrier to starting any project is often the overwhelming vastness of possibility presented by a blank canvas or an empty document. I crammed it with trendy icons, used about fifteen different colors, chose a cool but barely legible font, and arranged a few random bar charts and a particularly egregious pie chart in what I thought was a dynamic and exciting layout. It is the act of making the unconscious conscious, of examining the invisible blueprints that guide our reactions, and of deciding, with intention, which lines are worth tracing and which new paths we need to draw for ourselves.