‘Prompt’ 

“To notice can be taken to mean the same as ‘to perceive’, even ‘to sense’ in the most general ‘sense’ of that word.”
Mason, John. Researching your own practice: the discipline of noticing, (p.29-38). Lodon, Routledege Falmer, 2001.

Did you really notice, or was it a reconstructed version your mind created after someone prompted you to remember. What is it really to notice? Attention, detail, memory, recollection, to observe- to notice is to be aware.
For myself; noticing and awareness is a daily activity, I believe in meditation- the flow of awareness (both self and environmental). To accept your surroundings and notice objects, sounds and even energies. “Noticing can be sharpened, can be developed and refined” (Mason, John). Yet in this case I will note that meditation is to be one with the present, in regards to continuously noticing and being able to recall various aspects of observation, one must be consistently intertwined with their environment and self.

To inspire us for this first task we were taken to the NGV Ian Potter Center in Federation Square. We were to examine the exhibition “Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition” and take in an understanding of what caused Pound to compile specific photographs, what were interesting about the photographs as well as other aspects of noticing. As Pound says, ‘to collect is to gather your thoughts through things’.  What I came to terms with at the end of viewing the exhibition was that individuals have similar behaviors through time as well as many photos have interconnecting themes that you may only see if you are spending time and really looking into the photographs. “Objects that are seemingly redundant or overlooked are meticulously collected by the artist and put back into ‘use’ in these museums.”
 After completing the readings on noticing and visiting Patrick pounds exhibition; I wanted to take into account the way we can interpret mood and atmosphere and what evokes a certain ambiance. In pounds exhibition he had a series of photographs that all had one reoccurring theme- light (from lamps, cameras ect).
I want to compile a series of photographs on light that create a certain atmosphere or emotion, especially thinking on the relationship of shadows and chiaroscuro. I think we forget how much lighting plays in the way we feel and it will be interesting to see how lighting in every day settings look when compiled, what stands out and what creates character and why certain ways of lighting create character. To do this I will be taking mainly photographs of different rooms, specifically settings that present a particular mood, potentially how they connect and why they present that particular mood.