Messages without Text

To create a message using an image without a single letter from the alphabet on it requires a good deal of creativity. In my Unit Three project, I have had to come up with a way to convey something that could be said so simply with words, however, I believe the images I ended up using are much more powerful.

Here's an example of one of my images:

You get the picture, right? (Right!?) On one side of the yellow line, you see the world as it is - with bees. On the other side, you see that without bees, the rose would not be there. It would have been so easy for me to write "With Bees" on one side and "Without Bees" on the other, but I couldn't. So I got creative. I took a picture of a living bee and stuck it on one side. Easy enough. That world has a bee so they cannot be extinct. On the other side, I replaced it with a white space, put an X through it, and flipped it around. I think it's pretty obvious that the bees are diseased in this world.

So I got the initial idea across, but I was able to add more dimension to my message as well. The bees convey so much more than the idea of a world with bees vs. a world without. They are facing each other, mirror images (in shape, anyway). It is almost as if the living bee is staring at its fate. They are separated by a line - a boundary. A line I am arguing we should not cross. Finally, you get the contrast between the body of one and the emptiness of another. It adds to the whole image.