The Start!

On the 29th of September I check my phone’s gallery to see the latest media item. Out of a series of consecutive photos that I took of my friend before our meal the one on the far left was the very last one.

Saturday during brunch with my friend Joo. The far left photo out of the three above turned out to be the very last photo taken on my phone. Some of the things i noticed in the photo were the colourful plate of food in front of her, the watch on her wrist, a random lady figure in the background and her stare. Honestly her gaze was what stood out the most to me as it was not a usual friendly photogenic gaze like in the second photo but closer to a death stare. I was stuck between choosing the food and her stare as my next object of media content; although her stare was what i found more intriguing, considering the difficulty of capturing a ‘gaze’ I contemplated. I realised the sleaziness of my noticing. Like everyone else i like to do things the easy way and before even trying it out i instantly made a presumption about how one thing was going to be harder to discover and encapsulate than the other. It was interesting to see how i did a little demo on different ways to capture either objects in my mind and weighing which one would work better or might not work at all, before making the decision. I noticed that my mind is very controlling. Do we ever do something without a reason? i think that there is a reason for everything that we do and sometimes we play it safe and sometimes we take the risk even when there are doubts because safe can turn out to be quite mediocre. Therefore I went with the stare.

The next subject of noticing = Gaze