Epilogue: What Does it all Mean?

This will be my final post/assignment for Seeing Sideways. The question of the day: what is this class all about? Having attended a semester of this thing I'd say I'm an expert on the subject now, and I can tell you expertly that in my expert opinion I have no 'effin' clue what this class is about. Expertly.

We've done a lot of silly things in this class. We've had a lot of discussions about a lot of different things. This has been like the Leisure Studies major's wet dream. I think that, at the end of the day, what you take away from this class is entirely up to you. Depending on how much you participate and how much you listen you can learn a lot about yourself and how others perceive you. This class is like a blank slate to explore yourself with and permanently etch all your self-discoveries on. As I said, you get out of this class exactly what you want. If you walk in wanting to become more creative--like me--and you put in some real effort towards what you do, guess what? You will walk out more creative. You may not notice it immediately, but it'll happen.

This class has really helped me loosen up in regards to loosely-regimented assignments. Something I always knew was a fault of mine was how dependent high-school had made me on detailed instructions in my assignments, and how I'd always just follow the instructions to the letter, doing nothing more and nothing less. I think that, thanks to this class, I've really been able to open up and do some assignments for myself instead of just for a grade.

I walked in wanting creativity and flexibility in my work, and I believe I got it. What YOU see in this class is definitely what you get, So hopefully this class will give you a chance to change your perspective and, dare I say, see things a little sideways.

Hidden Pickles

So, we talked in class about hidden things and how our situation affects our perception of different things. For my random-pickle-with-a-hidden-twist I took my 6-year-old nephew and decided to show him some ink blots and compare our results. I chose to do this because I thought it tied in well with the "hidden" theme; everyone comes away seeing different things hidden in ink blots.

For this one, I saw a bat. My nephew saw an angel

I saw two people playing patty-cake. He saw two people, but didn't say they were doing anything

I saw crossbones. He saw palm trees.

I saw two people looking at eachother. He saw an arrow.

We both saw a butterfly.

So, from the results I...Ok, I'll be honest with you: I have no idea what the results mean. But it'll probably be fun to discuss what the class thinks it means.