Whats in JMooney’s box?

When Interviewing JMooney23’s avatar was very simple but meaningful to her. When I looked at her avatar for the first time, I couldn’t even guess what the things meant to her personally. After interviewing her I quickly realized what everything was about. The symbols in her avatar were very good symbols as to when someone looked at it they wouldn’t be able to guess what her things were about. But after learning about what all of them meant it made more sense when looking at her avatar.  

In the square box right in the center there is a heart. The heart is purple and about the size of a penny. Outside of the heart there is a sun that the heart is inside of. From the right top corner of the square there is film tape from the top corner to the bottom corner. Covering around the flag there are dog prints and birds around the box. Outside the rest it is just covered in a blue color. The way that she organized her avatar was organized and simple. 

 The symbols that stood out to me were the heart directly in the middle. It was the first thing that caught my eye because it was directly in the center of the avatar. For JMooney23’s flag the Film record tape she included she states “ It represents movies, I like watching movies” and she included it because “A record tape looks cool.” JMooney23 added a sun because she says “Warmth”, “Allergic to cold”. She used the paw print to “ Represent my dogs because I love my dogs and there my favorite animal.” When interviewing her about all these things I picked up on all these things being symbols that represent all things that she likes and are important to her. JMooney23 used the Birds to “ represent independence” She stated that she likes the feeling of being free and independent. Lastly she used the heart to represent “Will, my boyfriend and my family.” 

Myself and JMooney23’s avatar were similar and also different in many ways. For example, they were the same because the process we both used was the same. We both used the process of thinking about things that were important to us and thought of a symbol that could represent that. We both had something to represent our boyfriends and we both had things to represent our dogs. They were different because I had used more colors to represent the things I wanted in my avatar, she used more symbols and things to represent her avatar. Overall I thought her avatar was creative and a good way to represent herself.

“Love” by Steve Charman is licensed under CC BY 2.0.