After watching the last installment of Island of the Colorblind, choose one of the above prompts to answer and share answer in the Padlet by Kathryn Mayo

What might “seeing” mean beyond color—through texture, sound, memory, or emotion?

2025-10-21 04:37:22 UTC

I believe that beyond color, "seeing" could be understanding. No matter if its seeing color, feeling texture, or feeling emotions, the best way to "see" these different things is understanding them. In terms of color, it doesn't matter if two people see a color differently, as long as they both understand that color and what it represents, its the same. An that same concept goes for everything, Someone could see a red apple the same way someone else can feel a red apple or taste a red apple. They're perceiving it differently but they are all perceiving the same thing because they understand it.

Seeing beyond color….

2025-10-21 06:48:45 UTC

I was most struck about him describing having more heightened senses when vision is diminished. I can imagine that when you can’t use color to differentiate between two subjects, let’s say, you’re holding, the feeling and weight of it, the smell, the ability for it to create a noise like as if you were opening a piece of fruit would help you establish what it is and would become so routine that an abscence of a certain hue would make no difference. For example, my husband is into music and he has a shaker that is painted and shaped just like a red delicious apple. But my brain knows not to eat it because it feels like plastic, it’s lightweight and makes a noise because it has beads or sand inside it to make a certain sound for music. It’s the same shape and red hue as a red delicious apple so you have to use your other senses to differentiate.

What might “seeing” mean beyond color—through texture, sound, memory, or emotion?

2025-10-22 21:20:03 UTC

I think that "seeing" beyond color can be a multi-sensory and cognitive experience, where the brain constructs a rich perception of the world by integrating information from various senses and internal states. I feel that the brain constructs a perception of an object's weight, temperature, and material, giving it a texture-based "image". For people with visual impairments, this form of perception can become highly developed. Animals like bats and dolphins use echolocation (seeing through sound) by emitting sound waves and interpreting the echoes to build a mental image of their surroundings. Emotion has a profound effect on perception and memory. I think that the brain prioritizes experiences with high emotional significance, making these memories more vivid and more easily recalled.

2025-10-24 00:02:23 UTC

Hi class,

This is such a fascinating topic, I am so bummed we are finished with the series. By focusing on other elements, like texture and memories, you are forced to think about what you are photographing instead of mindlessly shooting something. It creates meaning and depth to what you are shooting, it makes you step back and ask why you are shooting this. I think being in tune and mindful of what you are photographing is a skill in of itself. Because of this, I strive for haptic feeling, I want there to be a reason of what’s included or missing.

In your work, do you find yourself striving for realist clarity or haptic feeling—and how might this week’s ideas shift that balance?

2025-10-25 00:28:40 UTC

I usually find myself striving for realist clarity because I just like the crispiness in images and that clear detail. Though lately I've been learning about older photography in my History of Photography class, so I've been influenced by that old grainy haptic feeling look. I'm definitely trying to explore other avenues!

Seeing beyond color for photography

2025-10-25 02:36:32 UTC

In some ways, I feel that seeing "beyond" color may mean that you must focus on different elements of vision like textures. On the other hand, I feel that it may also mean that in photography we need to add additional haptic elements to the photograph so that the emotions and meaning is still evident without the color.

Seeing beyond color

2025-10-25 13:01:55 UTC

Music is something that is a huge part of my life, so I can imagine seeing color through sound, which is also emotional. Professionals describe some audio equipment as adding warmth to sounds due to how it processes sound frequencies, so it's interesting to think of how warm frequencies (low-mid and bass frequencies) interact with bright frequencies (high frequencies) - although this doesn't tie to color one-to-one, since high frequencies can feel "yellow" to me if I'm associating them with the memory of a high-hat drum, or how low frequencies can feel "blue" to me if I'm associating them with the ocean.

How does your own way of seeing shape what and how you photograph?

2025-10-27 04:00:36 UTC

I think that the way that I see the world in my mind differs from what others see and changes my photos in a way that makes them somewhat unique. I tend to look at things closely and notice the little details and those are my "triggers". I will notice the way light looks or how it shines on someone or something, or I may see the shape of something. It causes my focus to be narrow and I tend to ignore or forget about the larger things in the composition or take photos of mundane things I find interesting. These triggers differentiate my work from the work of others.