Spatial experience...

I would like to say that the images I have been collecting to lead up to my visual abstract definitely coincide with the things that I cannot live without.  I feel that there are a lot of things that people take for granted and color would be one of them.  No one ever questions color and how its able to be what it is.  Color is everywhere and if we lived in a grayscale world, it would be quite dreary and white would be my yellow, black would still be my black.  I thought for a second that it would be my blue, but that would mean I was thinking of blue as a depressing color, which is more about explaining an emotional state rather than the vibrancy of the color and its application.  After all blue is the universal color, its the sky we all see and I appreciate that.

Since I started talking about something that people take for granted, I want to mention something I thoroughly thought about while walking down the street.  As I was taking this walk I was talking and thinking about my mother, who is deaf, and how my perception of the space I live in is so significantly larger and different than hers.  Sound is a part of our spatial perception and we're able to relate our physical body to sounds we hear all around us.  My mother, or anyone who cannot hear, can only see spatial limits.  I've been thinking about this for probably a week now and it completely blows my mind, because unless there was a mirror in front of her or surrounding her she won't ever have the same spatial experience that keeps us on our toes and keeps us aware of our surroundings.  There's so many times that I move out of the way because I can hear someone coming up from behind me or next to me when I'm in the food store or anywhere and I remember all the times people got so frustrated with my mom because she just didn't have the same spatial perception to realize they were right behind her, so close, they'd always scare her.

"space" is to be understood in the mathematical sense, as a set of points between which distances can be defined, I would assume this could be visually seen or through hearing and touch. (definition of space- Blauert, Jens. Spatial Hearing: the Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization.)

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Exposing the very edge in new forms of interconnected sound and vision, 2008's Sound Polaroids casts focus on the ever-increasing body of work concerned with our collective living spaces, architecture and movement in the urban environment. Leading the charge is acclaimed UK video art and design outfit D-Fuse who bring to Brisbane their provoking and futuristic cityscape deconstructions. Sound Polaroids also presents the Australian premiere of Empire II.

Offering equal doses of inspiration for the ears and eyes,Sound Polaroids is an unforgettable weekend of audio visual stimulation!

Sound Polaroids...