For this intervention, again, I took a few elements from my quilt, before mounting them together - these elements are part of my sensory experience. I asked the participant to react to the elements, without having previous knowledge of the elements: What is the element? what is it used for? which sense should be used to experience the element? How does it make her feel? did it provoke any memory or emotion? The elements that I used are:
A fabric case packed with dry leaves
Bubble wrap
incentive oil - relaxing mix
Photo collage of the beach
Photos - one by one:
embroidery - Lyrics from "Lovesong" by the cure
S was a little distanced from the whole idea and asked me to ask her guiding questions, and not for her to start talking about the object. Most of the times I asked "what do you think about this object?" or "what does it make you feel?"
Her mantra, sentence that she used as part of her life lesson and ideology:
This is temporary: פיתרון קבוע לבעיה זמנית
a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It helped me to tell the difference between a temporary problem and a permanent one.
Her original thought was to compare the death of her cousin when they were young, to her
Dry leaves -
Bubble wrap - nothing.
Incentive oil - she didn't like it, feels too artificial, she likes smells but real ones.
Embroidery - she didn't recognize the song and did not interact with it.
Photos - I showed her some printed photos and ask her to tell me when she thinks of them and how they make her feel, she said that she is not a very visual person, and more connected to other senses like smell and sound.
Photos:
The beach and ocean collage - she grew up in Haifa (a seaside city in Israel) and feels very connected to the beach and to the sea. She really likes the sound of the beach - the waves and other background sounds, not from river like stram or lake, but from the beach. She loves the whole sensory experience - the smell, sounds, feeling of the wind, walking on the sand, the wide sea, she feels very inspired, it's connected to her going alone to the beach, the sea is accepting everything, the sea doesn't have any requirements from her, she doesn't have to behave differently to it, do something she doesn't feel obligated or force herself to specific did.
She feels very free, freedom, complete, accepted, authentic.
The scream (Edvard Munch)K - it gives her a feeling that something is very wrong with this image, with this situation. like a gut feeling. She considers herself more connected to the brain than to the emotions. a very practical person, so it made her wonder about the gut feeling that something wrong.
Sunday in the park (George Seurat) K
Bathers at Asnieres (George Seurat) L
View of the ocean the beach -
A spreading her arms facing the beach
A holding her grandmother's hand
Holocaust - sad photo, doesn't take her to her being immigrants.
Y Triathlon - feeling of freedom (referring more to the beach in the background), she doesn't feel connected to sport.
Y daughter at the beach - feeling of freedom (referring more to the beach)
A fabric case packed with dry leaves - remind her of her childhood, a wood next where she lived, context of going there with friends or by herself, not with her family.
Bubble wrap - nothing
incentive oil - relaxing mix
Incentive oil - ocean mix - she didn't like it, feels too artificial, she likes smells but real ones.
Photo collage of the beach
embroidery - Lyrics from "Lovesong" by the cure (H) - she didn't recognize the song and did not interact with it.
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