– Readings –

“The essence of noticing is being awake to situations, being mindful rather than mindless.”

WEEK 1 – Noticing

From the readings in week 1, there was one sentence that I really agreed with the author was ‘we may think that we are widely aware of what is going on around us, but in fact, attention is highly selective, and for good reason’. I totally agree with this point, because I used to consider why people have different points of view even when they are looking at the same thing, my conclusion is according to the variation of experience, lifestyle, and beliefs. This is the same as noticing, deliberate noticing is actually difficult, we noticed things because we have an experience or even a small piece of memory that is associated with the things we give our attention to.

In a small group of 4, we shared things we noticed on the way to school. We were either focused on rushing to school, so we didn’t really notice anything until we sat down, when we get out attention to the time we are only thinking not to be late and time remain time, people will have no more attention to share with  or like me, I noticed the sunshine was on the wall of the train station because I read an article about how to use sunlight/ natural light to create a better photograph, so my eyes stopped on the sunlights.

WEEK 2 –  Ontography

To be honest, until this moment, I am still very confused with the term ‘Ontography’, however, through reading and discussion upon the reading I think I got the basic idea of this term, and I also understood why Hannah asked us to link ‘Patrick Pound’ with task one.  If we take a quick browse at each section of the collection we might not be able to notice why are these subjects collected together, they seemed to have no connection in between. Such as the collection around ‘hole’, there were books, CDs, living goods and etc. when I found the tiny figure which was a minor that was digging a hole, I was really surprised how attentive he is. 

– Things to be explored during the collection of notices –

Since last semester, I was aware of different colours, how might a single colour change a photograph and especially when two contrast colours meet each other. In the class time when everyone was choosing a concept for their collection of noticing, I noticed my sleeve matches with the table and my new nails colour are very similar to my laptop stickers, so I captured this down and decided to focus on this direction.

However, question rise at the same time, Hannah reminded me that she will be curious to know if I do this on purpose, which means instead of noticing the this I might make them up because the sense of noticing colours was raised.