A Different Perspective

PROJECT 2 A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Over the past year we have been investigating both our family and personal ideologies with the intention of gaining insight on our own core values and beliefs. For this project we have been asked to draw a ‘discovery’ from these findings and apply and build this into an abstract structure form from white card.

After constant exploration of my own beliefs and value systems and comparing myself to others, the idea of perception became increasingly interesting and it became apparent that the underlying issue or trend was not that of what but more of how and why. As a result I decided to rather explore how individuals perceive themselves and how they are actually perceived.

It became evident that many of us have a distorted impression on how we are perceived by others.

How we are perceived is based purely on how we project ourselves to our audience, but how we think we portray ourselves may be obscured and is not how we are perceived at all. Each and every one of us looks at others through different ‘lenses’ and each has filters of beliefs and values that create a different picture from all different eyes. These filters may be self- image, religion or status but, whatever they may be, they create a different view and how we in turn view ourselves has also been filtered through these ideologies.

Many of us assume that a fly’s eye must have a distorted view due to its obscure aesthetics, however, due to a fly’s eye immobility and because of their spherical shape and protrusion from the fly’s head, they have an almost 360 degree view of the world. Perhaps the view from the fly’s eye is ‘normal’ and it is our view that is distorted. And so, it was my intention was to create an abstract image of a fly’s eye with many hexagonal pieces resembling its complexity.

The cut out frame of the hexagons, which lies next to the eye, is turned into itself represents a stereoscope which lends itself to see from a different perspective and reminds us that at times things may appear to be one thing when in fact is not.

The structure serves as a reminder to me that the way in which I am perceived is different to the perception that I have of myself.

It not only represents my distorted perception but also act as a ‘mirror’ which give me opportunity to look into and in turn reflect.