The Enchanting the Mundane project is unlike any other activity I have undertaken in school. Because I am allowed creative freedom, I find myself looking for an instruction sheet- not yet used to looking inside myself and compiling my internal set of instructions.
Upon close inspection of my bookshelves, half are literary texts (mostly accumulated through schooling) while the other half are simply books for pure pleasure. There is not much enchantment from an academic level, but each book resting there enchanted me for hours, through every page. Literacy is an undeniably influential part of my past, present and
future which is why I chose it as my topic for the Enchanting the Mundane project.
Compiling visual elements representative of my literacy perspective has been difficult. I feel exposed and not nearly compelling enough. I turned to capturing pictures of my little boy reading our favorite stories, also to my grandmother who has willing read anything that has enchanted me at one point or another-Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Secret Life of Bees and everything in between. One of my favorite creative moments in this process was capturing my favorite reading spots with snippets of the page clearly defined in the frame.
After working the images through my mind, the audio to fit my project just came to me much like the spontaneous illumination of a light bulb. While I am still working through the compilation of this project, I am becoming more and more thrilled at having to instruction sheet to bridle my ideas.
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