SMFA Senior Thesis Project May, 2017.
Grossman, Ellie.
2017
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Through the
exploration of the relationship between perception and mental processes, I investigate
how each manifest within the other to affect judgment, perception, and meta-perception.
I embark on this exploration through my own mental processes, utilizing my color
synesthesia - "a crossing over of the senses", allowing me to associate people with
color-to overlay my own perceptions of the ... read moreindividuals and interactions I experience. By
acknowledging my own subjectivity in communication, it conversely allows me to employ an
objective lens through which I can decipher interaction. A preliminary conversation with
the subject serves to gather information and foster connection, as they detail how their
individual mind affects their perception of themselves and others. I then incorporate my
personal language of color, creating a portrait that establishes a visual representation
of my attempt to "accurately'' join our perceptions. Following the creation of the
portrait, a subsequent conversation takes place in its presence as the subject and I
discuss the correctness of the perception created: Is this accurate? Where is the
disparity? What affect does this have on personal perception versus external? Recordings
of the epilogue conversations play along with the portraits, discernable in close
proximity, yet imperceptible while viewing the paintings in totality. Perhaps
melancholically, it becomes apparent that there is no truly impartial image, as neither
I or the subject can ever achieve perfect objectivity in this
self-reflection.
Keywords: psychology, mental health, identity, perception, oil paint, painting.read less - ID:
- 9p290n355
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