– Task one reflection –

1. What made you stop to record the moments of noticing you did?

First, if the colour of the objects were vivid or special enough that will always make me stop for them, and secondly, if the colour was special that I really liked but it was not matching another object up at the moment I discovered them, I found myself must go back with something that I think will match with it very well. For example, I found the green couches beside our classroom I really liked. However, when I discovered this place I wasn’t wearing anything that can go with these green couches although I remembered that I have a similar hoodie that will really suit this green so I brought it the next and record the moment. ➡️

 

2. How did the way you collect relate to your initial research prompt?

Since I knew this task is more about a  moment of discovery/learning/epiphany which of course we need to be attentive and aware of everything we are surrounded by, once I had decided the direction I wanted to focus on, I held my camera/ phone wherever I went and walked slower than I usually do intentionally.

3. What did you discover/learn about making media through noticing?

Through class discussion on Thursday, we showed each other our own collection of media and discuss what someone in our group has pointed out about my photos is something I did not notice during filming. One of our group members has written down shapes and angles on my paper, which are two things that I didn’t pay attention to when I was collecting my media. At this point, I realized week one reading was kind of linking to what Hannah asked us to discuss: when we are paying our full attention to something or an object, we might miss out something small.

4. What question(s) arise for you out of this making?

I really focused only on ‘colours’, I felt like everything that is colourful were extra conspicuous and vivid when I have this idea in mind, however, when we concentrate too much on a single thing then we might not have the time and effort to spend on the other things, which this is how I missed a lot of important things. 

– Looking back to the Patrick Pound –

The exhibition was very interesting and inspiring, I used to think that I am such a mindful person which is aware of a lot of things going around me, but after seeing  ‘Patrick Pound’s collection I was so surprised by how much detail are there in every piece of his noticing. There were two series of work that I found most interesting, one of them was in the first exhibition room which people’s face on each the collected photographs has been ripped off. The other one was a series that each frame has two photographs, they all seemed to be cut outs from newspapers and magazines but the two images ingeniously linked together. The first impression to this exhibition was wondering where and how did he get all these photographs from, but then I was thinking more of how could he be so mindful and keeping his eye on everything that is going on around him or even further from him.