It's about how our communication is embedded with metaphors and use of visuals

1. Leveraging onMetaphors & Visuals Speech delivered @MAPS National Convention 2011

2. What’s in a NAME?

3. Muhammad = praise / The BlesserOng / Heng / Wong= KingAnura = eternal love / devotion / hill of knowledge

4. Metaphors

5. Metaphors… Eases… Smoothens… The Unfamiliar = Familiar Complex vs Simple Personifies… Being used all the time… in languages, thoughts, and actions

6. The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, 1836

7. Metaphors… Pervasive in our culture Nature / natural phenomena Plants Animals God(s) & Religions Numbers Diseases Food

8. The fortune in cultures… He’s a dried stalk My love is like a rose A lion’s heart… Hatred is like cancer Time is money. Apple of my eye Ideas are wings Bagaiaurdengantebing Sedangkanlidahlagitergigit Tepuktapaktangan… Patahsayapbertongkatparuh Sarangtebuanjangandijolok Masakantempuanbersarangrendah

9. Why Metaphors Common grounds Playful Heightens understanding Enriches

10. Visual Arts

12. Visual Arts Graphics / Icons / Symbols / Pictures A picture is worth a 1000 words

16. Why Visual Arts Open to interpretation Cut across Cultures Languages Education levels Fast Story Personal, reflection Lowers barriers

17. The Power of CombiningMetaphors & Visual Arts

22. Graphics Facilitation 27 & 28 June 2011

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