Coming Alive

My written research during my masters at the Royal College of Art opened up the question of whether experiences are as pure and true as we think them to be. How aware are we of our senses when clouded by the layerings of a preconceived idea of what that experience is, or could be? I’m exploring the understandings of my actions in making and understanding what the making refers to. This consciousness of making is an act of ongoing referential process.

An extract from ‘Environment & Ontology’ Chapter, p11;
'We have a supposed idea of an experience, of our perception, our thoughts of sensing, not questioned upon consciousness but unquestioned belief in the world. We use evidence, our world and our memories, to perceive and define an experience which results in assumptions, whether we believe these assumptions or not, if we believe these assumptions it’s likely to have no experience at all, as we keep the memory of your last feeling of that experience in mind, not allowing new sensations to occur. We think we know what it is to see, to hear, to sense, yet perception has given us visual objects that we remember.'

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