Meditation
My graphic design professor just introduced a project today that he is calling “Journeys & Transformations.” As a graduate student at VCU, he had to do a similar project. They were told to be someone they were not, and document the process. He decided to be homeless. So for 3 days (if memory serves me right), he lived on the streets with a camera to document his journey.
Our project doesn’t require us to be someone we’re not, but our professor gave us all random things we had to do and document it along the way. They included visiting a terminal patient at a hospital, not showering/brushing your teeth/washing for 3 days, donating 2 pints of blood, no internet/e-mail/telephone for 3 days, and, of course, being homeless for 24 hours.
I got this: “Meditate by yourself in total silence for 2 hours a day for a week.”
At first I thought, damn, if there were any of them that were made for me, this was it. I keep thinking about it though, and sitting completely still by yourself takes a lot of mental toughness. Not to mention it’s for 2 hours at a time. I think the next thing I’m going to do is look up what meditation really is and try to follow that.
At the end of this project, all of our documentation efforts are going to be made into a book. We each get 4-page spreads.
