My partner and I decided to work on this exercise at Union square park since we were both familiar with this park. On, our way to the park I wore the earplugs and on our way back she wore the earplugs. At, the park we both sat on the benches at the park and closed our eyes for about 20 minutes when those 20 minutes were over we discussed our experiences.
We decided to make a 3D sculpture, which we titled “Flat sound” to show our experienced when deprived from the sense of sight and sound to demonstrate that as sight and hearing were inaccessible to us we were able to clearly listen and pay more attention to the sounds around us. We put together different kinds of footwear to represent and try to make others understand the sound of shoes that we listened as our eyes were closed. A sandal for the sound of a person walking by that had sandals on, a high heel for another person that walked by with high heels on stepping on the concrete floor, and a sneaker for the person that also walked by with simple shoes on, the sneaker with pins on also represents a foot that falls asleep which feels like more than one hundred pins are poking one’s foot, which is what my partner had felt when we sat for a long time on the bench. Each different shoe created a different sound on the floor as a person walked by, which made me and my partner realize that the sense of sound is a big help when we are deprived from sight because sound helps to identify the things that might be around us. There is also a small car in between the shoes because it is meant to represent the sounds of cars during traffic on the streets which we were able to listen too as well. With, this art piece we want to try to make others understand what my partner and I experienced when we were both deprived from sound and sight for a couple of minutes, where we pay more attention to our senses and things around us that we never really pay attention to on a daily basis.
In class we decided to present a video instead of the actual sculpture that my partner and I created because although it did emphasized what we had felt and listen as our eyes were closed, we felt it was better to project the video with the picture of our sculpture and background video to demonstrate what we listen as our eyes were closed. We also intended to make a projector out of a box, and project the video on the sculpture,which we did but it did not work which is why we de decided to instead show the video in class and just talk about our project.