"Evolutionarily, the visual system was developed to see,
not to be a perceptor of how it sees.
And if everything was working well,
there probably wouldn't be any need for such self-consciousness."
not to be a perceptor of how it sees.
And if everything was working well,
there probably wouldn't be any need for such self-consciousness."
The Living Anatomy Of Vision, a manual-in-process researched and compiled by The School for Body-Mind-Centering-in-process, and is reprinted from Contact Quarterly, vol 6 no. 2, Winter1981 cited in "SENSING,FEELING, AND ACTION" Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.
how do you tell your journey through your eyes? what comes into your mind when different lights fall onto your face? what happened this morning? last night? How does thinking about this make your eyes engage to discover new angles of sight? Can the frame of the camera depict the situation? What is the issue if the role of the eye is just to see?
the idea of working with telling story through your eyes came out of working with an artist called Irene. i was going through my ideas with her in relation to the lungs and breathing and trying to engage with to explore movement in relation to exploring illusionary, representative framings while filming. This came across to her in a very abstract manner and therefore was really hard to fully comprehend and think of ways of working with it. Because of this i had to question my approach to expressing my ideas... how can you relate internal creative thoughts to inspiring another collaborator who is not going through the same process as you are?
what ended up being clearer to us both is thinking of a story and telling it through different parts of the body. This worked well because we both were working with the same intention. i particularly liked working with the eyes so planned to make the film above.
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