Second Experience

Exploration #12..FIFTY THINGS
write down [or document] fifty things about one of the following: a trip to the library, a trip to the grocery store, a walk in your neighborhood.

So I decided to take a trip to the airport and i will document this experience in my journal and also take photos.

I wanted to take a different approach in documenting objects in the airport, I wanted to document people and the way their interact with one another or alone. I've also noticed that through this experience you can see emotions and almost feel them yourselves because you relate to it through your own memories.



I watched a young lady for quite some time and I noticed how calm she was waiting for her flight. A lot of people came really fast and didn't stop to sit but she did and what was interesting was the amount of people that passed by her but she stayed in almost the same place. I wonder what she was thinking the whole time.





I also captured a few other emotional moments from people. And most of them were all positive moments.

The biggest connection I've made from this exploration was the emotional process I have been making. Those emotional processes relate to my memories with family and friends. It reminds me of how happy I am to come home from school and being around the people I love. And then I envy the people who have it right there all the time because I wish I was that close to my family in location.


FINAL SPREADS

First Experience

I chose to have my first experience be exploration #28 because I wanted to know what it's like being blind. I don't have the best vision in the world so I chose to expand my exploration by not using my glasses/contacts for a period of time. I chose to do my first experience [being blind] on Saturday. I walked around my whole apartment for about 10 minutes. I relied on my other senses and my friend, who kept me out of harms by guidance. The second experience [no glasses/contacts] was done Monday. I spent an hour doing my regular activities. After each experiment I documented them in my sketchbook and took a lot of notes.

Experiment 1
so the first experiment was to walk around my apt with a blind fold, and i started at my room. Surprisingly i could identify 85% of the things in my room. why? because I'm always in my room during school. so i moved to the other rooms in my apt, which was my living room. kitchen, and my roommate's room. So the living room was also a room i could identify and as i move to the kitchen i was not able to identify a lot of the objects surrounding me. My biggest fear was to touch a knife and cut myself! But luckily I had my roommate watch my every room and yell to out "Don't touch that!" So the room I know the least was of course my roommate's room. I felt like I was in a whole different world. I stumbled on everything and I even dropped books and papers everywhere. After that mini accident I was getting a little antsy because I didn't know what i was doing and I was tired of knocking things down. So I pulled the blind fold off and felt relieved it was over!

Experiment 2
So the next day I spent half the day not being able to see without contacts and glasses. I guess the only good thing about this experiment was I could see but only blurry. I have a pretty bad eye sight so everything that had to do with text and images was all in my face throughout the experiment because I couldn't see it from far away, I mostly gave up on reading anything because if I strained my eyes too much I had a headache. What I did notice was i could easily identify colors and shapes. Some shapes I couldn't identify but I knew they were there. I was content in knowing that i knew most of the objects surrounding me.

After my experiments it was hard for me to have visuals to relate to when i was being blind. I had a lot of thoughts and feelings going through my head and i wanted that to be guide my to my connection.



From those feelings I wanted to make a connection with the objects I stumbled upon and felt anxious.
This is my roommate's room and this is the infamous room I felt so lost in and gathered many emotions from.



These are a few of the many objects I touched that I either stumbled, couldn't identify or was scared to touch. And from that I wanted to make a connection with the quotes I gathered from a few books from what I felt from this experience.








From all this experience and talking to polly I want to explore more of what it's like to be really blind. So i will continue by researching how people live everyday with blindness and what do they do different from those who can see.