Reflection on Collective Perception

I can see that the saying, “Many hands make light work.” certainly was the definition of the weight of the workload upon the artists involved in this project.  The most difficult part for me was the intense personal involvement with my subjects when I was taking pictures and recording answers to questions before our three groups joined into one, but that was also very interesting because of its intensity.  The day that our larger group was working at the Beard building, during the opening, I had a very different experience of which the following is a part:

From where I was standing, I felt like a sentry, hostess, and recruiter as I took part in the interesting dynamics of our project.  I thought it was an interesting, delightful, and dynamic situation.  I liked the way it all seemed to flow in a unique and lovely manner as the people filed into the gallery.  It was a lazy sort of thing that was purposeful, methodical, gracefully adorned with the burden of the great flight of stairs. (Certainly some anticipation is building while you’re standing there hearing this great big sound of feet on the stairs in that stairwell!) And then, people would appear from around the top of the stairs, and I would perform my recruiting duties and welcome them to the gallery.

That was an almost formal affair and very interesting.  These are definitely all pros. 

As far as cons are concerned, It would have been great to have had better recording equipment, because I found myself going over one recording about five times to try to make sure that I typed the correct words that I heard (or did not hear as the case was), and I actually did end up leaving out a piece where I really could not hear (a truck had driven by at that moment in the recording).