Description:

         For this project, I want to do a series of photos about synesthesia. All of us have experienced synesthesia. We will think of a bird when we heard chirp, and some restaurants decorated in red to make their guests more hungry. In my research, most synesthete state that their experiences are neutral or even pleasant. I was also very interested in what happened in that short video, Synesthesia. They talk and understand the world in different ways and perceptions. Since, I want to create a series of photographs of atypical perceptual response.  Through photos, I hope viewers could tell different ways of perception from the mainstream.

Inspiration

Artist: Wen Hang Lin

 

Perception Studies

Most of our judgments are based on experience and memory, so time is a fluid concept in a sense. Synesthesia blurs our senses and connects them. There are three separate events are fused together by synesthesia and Photoshop. 

Troxler fading: an optical illusion affecting visual perception. “When one fixates on a particular point for even a short period of time, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point will fade away and disappear.”

My friends were drunk and couldn’t find the keyhole in this photograph. This situation reminded me of Troxler fading.

This image inspired by Oliver  Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.  The main character in this book Dr. P  sees his wife as a hat. I once read a book on neuroscience that had a chapter about some people will identify others as animals based on their scent and personality. For example, they would mistake a thin, aggressive person for a big spider. 

Original Photographs