For the first assignment we were told to study shadows. Now shadows aren't exactly high up in your list of things to observe, so when you do sit down and start studying them, its shocking how we have managed to miss out on a parallel world that is right at our feet.
Here are a couple of shadows I found around the campus,
As the Sun moves across the sky, the shadows change their shape, obviously. But we don't tend to take this very seriously, and like many other things in life, this change is taken for granted. But watching the shadow of an object change is like watching a movie that runs throughout the day. It's fascinating. The shadow slowly wraps and moves.
The pictures below are of the same shadow.
Before studying Colour and Composition in the first semester, I thought I was blind. But now I'm seeing now more and more of the world. It is as if someone has just switched on the lights. It's beggars belief as to how much we don't perceive, even though we can physically see it. There are whole new worlds out there, lying undiscovered. It's all very well sending men to the Moon, and fulfilling our ambition to send a probe to the outer edges of our local Solar System, and yes, it is exciting to see new worlds out there in the universe, but if we all just looked closely at our surroundings, there are universes just waiting to be discovered, right at our feet.
An additional assignment was given to this. We were given a list of Martian sounding names, and told to create shadows based on the words/phrases. This sounds pretty odd, and it doesn't get any better. So based on the pronunciation of the word, we were to create shadows. This is where our practical learning of synaesthesia started.
I chose the phrase plip-plop.
This is what I created.
Here are a couple of shadows I found around the campus,
As the Sun moves across the sky, the shadows change their shape, obviously. But we don't tend to take this very seriously, and like many other things in life, this change is taken for granted. But watching the shadow of an object change is like watching a movie that runs throughout the day. It's fascinating. The shadow slowly wraps and moves.
The pictures below are of the same shadow.
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| The same shadow, a couple of hours later. The form has completely changed and new objects are now in view |
Before studying Colour and Composition in the first semester, I thought I was blind. But now I'm seeing now more and more of the world. It is as if someone has just switched on the lights. It's beggars belief as to how much we don't perceive, even though we can physically see it. There are whole new worlds out there, lying undiscovered. It's all very well sending men to the Moon, and fulfilling our ambition to send a probe to the outer edges of our local Solar System, and yes, it is exciting to see new worlds out there in the universe, but if we all just looked closely at our surroundings, there are universes just waiting to be discovered, right at our feet.
An additional assignment was given to this. We were given a list of Martian sounding names, and told to create shadows based on the words/phrases. This sounds pretty odd, and it doesn't get any better. So based on the pronunciation of the word, we were to create shadows. This is where our practical learning of synaesthesia started.
I chose the phrase plip-plop.
This is what I created.
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