Megan Sutton UUB: The World of the Dying Brain

We got put into different groups this week, I am now in a group with Caitlin, Emma, Natasha and Paul. The previous group decided to create a world within a dying brain. It is floating in a person’s skull with a black background. Dementia is the cause of the brain’s eventual death.

They had basically made each lobe of the brain into a country in charge of different aspects of the brain. This is how they portrayed each lobe...

Frontal lobe - The Capital: where all information enters the neurone tree to be sorted and sent off to the different parts of the brain for storage.

Occipital lobe (Occipitia): Creativity runs free within this part of the brain.

Parietal lobe (Piriat): Monks live in Piriat, they are farmers and supply the food to every lobe in the brain. They are the protectors of knowledge.

Temporal lobe (Tempora): 5 pillars protruding from the ground made of books containing your memories.

The pituitary gland (The Pit): Contains evil/deadly diseases that are looking to escape and go on the hunt for their purpose and meaning. They end up destroying everything in their path when they soon realise they weren't suppose to be apart of the brain.

Previous groups work.

Our task was to just further/add to the idea that had already been created in order to make more sense of the world. Due to it being such a vast world with different sections our group decided to designated people to a lobe of the brain. I began to work on Tempora.

Inspiration images:

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Corinthian Columns in Jerash.

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Ruins at Chichen Itza

Powder Point Bridge.

My Take on Tempora:

Tempora - It is in charge of the human memories.

Based on how many years you've lived the more vaults there are.

One vault contains the memories you have created for that year of your life.

The older you get the more those vaults break down and crumble away representing the mind slowly losing itself.

I then started to think what the inhabitants of Tempora would look like and what their housing would look like.

Next Weeks Task - Design a character for the world.

During class Conann got everyone to come up with a character for their world and draw it within a 15 minute time limit. Then once we had finished our drawings we had to choose one from our group for inking.

The homework task was for our group to create a creature for your world - As a group we decide to focus more on what creature would live in the pit.

I first came up with a leech type creature that would be able to suck the life out of anything it laches onto. I did like this design but I wanted to be a bit more creative and think outside the box like Connan said.