Today we learned about the Aesthetic Experience. An Aesthetic Experience is often hard to define. It has been described as spell binding; You become possessed; You find it difficult to tear yourself away, and when you do you're never quite the same. It is a sensory experience that brings one to a different level of emotional, intellectual, and spiritual consciousness.A life full of such experiences is truly a life to be sought after. However it seems that some people experience things like this frequently, while others have never had the pleasure. I would submit that the lack of these experiences is simply due to the fact that they are unaware such experiences exist, or unaware that they can learn how to have them.
To open the possibilities of having aesthetic experiences big and small, one needs to allow themselves a level of sensitivity to the world around them. One needs to allow themselves the option of being blown away, by something as small as a flickering shadow.
In class I wanted to give the everyone the opportunity to turn an ordinary experience into an extraordinary one. I wanted to help heighten the sensitivity level to the world at large.
Everyone was given a cup with clear water. The students were to try to open themselves up, to having an experience, and interaction with this water. Dye was dropped in, different colors, explosion melodically, desperately wending their way through the water. Blending together, until the water became dark. Each student was to take a photo of their cup and write about their experience in their portfolios.
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in." --American Beauty
2 comments:
I liked doing this project, Miss! The colors were trippy, and the pictures we took came out even trippier!
this picture is really cool because the red dye draw most of the attention to the cup but you still look at the sky. Nice DEPTH!
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