Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Static observation two

Things I didn't remember at all from static observation one:
Crocodile toy
Puzzle (left hand side) with a panda on top - called Shmuzle (or similar)
Tea cup and saucer
Some gold and silver mathematical shapes, which I liked, but I don't know what they are.  They look a little like the mathematical impossibility pictures
A toy - yellow and red on a stick - next the puzzle. Not sure what it is.

Things I hadn't seen at all:
A book lying flat at the 'back' (front in this observation) called 'Academias'
The wooden at the front are on a colourful puzzle type thing
A black and white patterned square

Things I was wrong about:
The red and white cloth at the back was actually a pattern on an elevated sort of plinth

Things I guessed and was right about:
It is an accordion (I think, I think I am right1)

I feel confident that I have remembered everything now yet at the same time know that I have forgotten something. Its odd to feel both things at the same time.
I was in a different position so I could see different things, I looked for the things that I had not seen the first time in order to fill in the gaps of knowledge from the first observation.
I also looked more at things I was unsure of - for example the accordion, to check if I had been right. Perhaps I have missed something key about what I am 'sure' of which I will see in the third observation.
I am not finding that considering what I hear, or smell, or touch is making a difference. It is very much based on observation, perception and what I think I know (or imagine). Maybe I will try to hear, smell, touch for the third observation.

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