This method of documentation is not only based on my own interpretation of my body and its various processes but also invites others to reflect upon their own bodies. By bringing a heightened consciousness to the various things that occur within the body, which can only be sensed rather than seen, any individual reading the map becomes its subject. By going through such a process in order to create this map, one learns to pay attention to the various things that one is feeling as one performs daily actions. One then learns to recognize what feels right and wrong and thus take steps towards caring for one's body. One also realizes just how desensitized one is in relation to how one feels on a daily basis. By mapping such information, one learns to approach this new set of feelings in a critical way, learning that different parts of the body heavily influence others and as is the case for the effect of certain situations on the body. It brings consciousness to the extent to which each part of our body is affected by the emotional or intellectual events one experiences. In other words, this map teaches the individual how abstract feelings or circumstances are in fact extremely corporeal. It engages something that is usually either neglected or taken for granted. In the readings, this is specifically what is discussed as one of the attributes of map-making. As it is written in the Corner's "The Agency of Mapping," "Reality, then, as in concepts such as 'landscape' or 'space', is not something external and 'given' for our apprehension; rather it is constituted, or 'formed', through our participation with things: material objects, images, values, cultural codes, places, cognitive schemata, events and maps."Mapping helps to bring consciousness to the things that one assumes is certain way. This map seeks to challenge the way one might usually see and experience one's body, as to suggest a more nurturing practice in relation to it.
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ReplyDeleteThis method of documentation is not only based on my own interpretation of my body and its various processes but also invites others to reflect upon their own bodies. By bringing a heightened consciousness to the various things that occur within the body, which can only be sensed rather than seen, any individual reading the map becomes its subject. By going through such a process in order to create this map, one learns to pay attention to the various things that one is feeling as one performs daily actions. One then learns to recognize what feels right and wrong and thus take steps towards caring for one's body. One also realizes just how desensitized one is in relation to how one feels on a daily basis. By mapping such information, one learns to approach this new set of feelings in a critical way, learning that different parts of the body heavily influence others and as is the case for the effect of certain situations on the body. It brings consciousness to the extent to which each part of our body is affected by the emotional or intellectual events one experiences. In other words, this map teaches the individual how abstract feelings or circumstances are in fact extremely corporeal. It engages something that is usually either neglected or taken for granted. In the readings, this is specifically what is discussed as one of the attributes of map-making. As it is written in the Corner's "The Agency of Mapping," "Reality, then, as in concepts such as 'landscape' or 'space', is not something external and 'given' for our apprehension; rather it is constituted, or 'formed', through our participation with things: material objects, images, values, cultural codes, places, cognitive schemata, events and maps."Mapping helps to bring consciousness to the things that one assumes is certain way. This map seeks to challenge the way one might usually see and experience one's body, as to suggest a more nurturing practice in relation to it.
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