Paper Bits

Apr 16

leggette:

Emotional Map: Karey Kessler
Karey uses maps to create contemplative diagrams of emotions and thoughts. She writes:
there is no map for navigating your own emotional and mental landscape. I like the idea of trying to map out what cannot be mapped out. As much as I might want to, I cannot truly map a fleeting memory, a moment of dissolving time, or the spaces and gaps between spaces and gaps.
Karey drew this map on a piece of paper she had saved for years. While going through some old high school notes, she rediscovered the graphing paper as a medium for documenting her stream of consciousness. In this map, even the paper itself becomes a record of a moment in time. The yellowing paper — used at one time for a math class — is a memory on which new memories, feelings, and emotions are diagrammed

Emotional Map: Karey Kessler

Karey uses maps to create contemplative diagrams of emotions and thoughts. She writes:

there is no map for navigating your own emotional and mental landscape. I like the idea of trying to map out what cannot be mapped out. As much as I might want to, I cannot truly map a fleeting memory, a moment of dissolving time, or the spaces and gaps between spaces and gaps.

Karey drew this map on a piece of paper she had saved for years. While going through some old high school notes, she rediscovered the graphing paper as a medium for documenting her stream of consciousness. In this map, even the paper itself becomes a record of a moment in time. The yellowing paper — used at one time for a math class — is a memory on which new memories, feelings, and emotions are diagrammed

Jun 30

Semiotics of Color

Via fyeahsynesthesia, a proposal to map colors to the alphabet in a meaningful way.

This website is divided into several sections that represent the process used in developing this system of writing with color as well as links to online resources such as color converting algorithms, a set of fonts for displaying color text, and several downloadable examples of how the color font was used in my newer works.

Jun 28

Marion J. Ross on synæsthesia:

From the time I was very young, I used words and phrases to describe things that (apparently) made no sense to the people around me. I would say that something I had heard “tasted like summer” or “felt like velvet.” Many of my teachers felt I was using words that I didn’t fully understand…others thought it was me trying to convey a feeling and not having the words to describe it. Looking back, I don’t think anyone realized that I was being literal.

It wasn’t until I was in high school that I realized that other people don’t experience things the way I do. It wasn’t until after college that there is a word for people like me.

I’m a synaesthete. My synaesthesia primarily manifests when I listen to music. It’s most pronounced when I’m at a live show. I (very literally) see, feel, and taste music in addition to hearing it. I can’t imagine life without it, and I wouldn’t want to.