Descubrimientos y metas (AMS)

As our reading of El día en que descubres quién eres came to an end we reflected on two main ideas: discovering something about ourselves and recognizing how we measure ourselves. We transformed these two ideas in two distinct projects.

For our first project, we identified a specific moment in our lives when we had learned something about ourselves. We then wrote a short story about this specific moment and identified one or two images connected to it.

For our second project, we started by an exercise of slow looking through the pages of the book. Our idea was to notice objects, colors, and shapes that repeated themselves. Thanks to this process we identified that rulers were hidden in several key moments of the story. We went on to discuss what could these rulers represent for the characters in the story and to ourselves. We concluded that these rulers could be a way of representing how others measure us, and how we measure ourselves against our own successes and shortcomings. From this reflection grew a visual project for which we first identified an item each for: something we have not accomplished yet but want to, something we have partially accomplished and are working on, and something we have completely accomplished. Secondly, we identified what object we wanted to use to represent our own ruler. Lastly, we combined all of our ideas to create original drawings.