Did you know that there are different ways that you can communicate things not just textually, but in visual terms? When the memoir is expressed in a textual way it does not hold an emotion the same way it does in a picture. According to rhetoricians Cheryl Glenn and Loretta Gray in the chapter Writing Arguments, people 's actions and attitudes do not depend on logical reasoning: “Human beings do not form their beliefs or act on the basis of facts or logic alone; if we did, we would all agree and would act accordingly. Scientific findings would stop us from indulging in unhealthy eating, drinking, or smoking. … Our actions and attitudes would change as soon as we learned the facts. But logical reasoning alone is never enough to get anybody to change” (107). Instead, people’s actions depend on their attitude and is a result of their actions. I chose to revise my memoir and turn it into a piece of found art because I am re-purposing it for my own uses. I will first explain why I converted my memoir into a painting, then I will talk about why I used dark colors and different shapes in my …show more content…
Lastly, the audience will be changing from whoever reads my memoir to anyone who sees the found art. According to Glenn and Gray, the rhetorical situation can be understood from the purpose of the writer and the audience they are addressing it to: “Writers (or speakers) enter a rhetorical situation when they identify an opportunity to propose a change (in behavior or attitude) through the effective use of language. Once writers have identified a rhetorical opportunity, they prepare a message (using words and sometimes images) for a specific audience” (2). When changing my memoir into a visual way of found art, the audience will change along with it. The audience use to be for anyone that read my memoir, now it is more limited to anyone that sees in the art museum. The painting gives it message right away to the audience by showing a lady drowning and getting suffocated in an