Narrative current.
Plane crash
Visual stream 05;
plane crash
The Catastrophe Psychology: Why Do You Grab Your Bag When Running Off a Burning Plane? (link to NYTimes article on Aeroflot Jetliner Crash, 2019)
I was wondering if there is a name for this kind of phenomena, where individuals prioritize retrieving their belongings during a life-threatening situation like an airplane emergency evacuation. It can be attributed to several psychological factors, but it doesn't have a specific, widely recognized name in psychology. However, it can be understood through various psychological concepts:
Self-Preservation Instinct: This behavior aligns with the instinctual drive for self-preservation, where individuals prioritize their own survival, sometimes even at the expense of others, when faced with imminent danger.
Fight-or-Flight Response: The fight-or-flight response is a physiological reaction to a perceived threat or danger. In such situations, people may experience heightened stress and make impulsive decisions, which could include grabbing personal belongings.
Loss Aversion: Loss aversion is a cognitive bias that makes people value avoiding losses more than acquiring gains. In this context, passengers may retrieve their belongings because they fear losing valuable possessions.
Disorientation and Panic: In high-stress situations like emergencies, individuals can become disoriented and panicked, leading to irrational actions, such as focusing on personal items.
Normalcy Bias: This bias can cause people to underestimate the severity of a situation or believe that things will return to normal, leading them to take actions that might seem inappropriate in hindsight, like collecting belongings during an evacuation.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: People may also engage in this behavior due to the sunk cost fallacy, where they feel compelled to continue an action because they've already invested time or effort into it, even if it's no longer rational (e.g., retrieving luggage they've already grabbed).
This is 05 Flow of images that had been on my mind recently.
Obedience to authority
I’ve reached the realization that humans have, for the first time in history, created a weapon capable of making independent decisions. No previous human invention has possessed such capability; a nuclear bomb wouldn’t autonomously decide to detonate, nor would a lawnmower choose to cross a neighbor’s property.
This led me to consider psychological experiments from the 1960s and 1970s, such as Milgram’s experiment. Participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to others for incorrect answers. Despite the shocks being simulated, many obeyed the instructions, showcasing the influence of authority on behavior.
While I understand that AI lacks ego, awareness, emotions, or intentions like humans, it’s undeniable that it’s constructed from the vast information fed into its system. My preliminary idea for an artistic project involves using AI to mimic human behavior, testing its responsiveness to human emotions. I’m curious about how a Milgram-style experiment might unfold if AI were in charge, and how public opinion would shape around it.
Dominoes
Dominoes by Lauren Shapiro
Life is mirrors pointed at other mirrors and then one day
your mom comes in and breaks them all.
She says her mother made her do it.
And her mother’s mother put rocks in the soup
and tied toys too high to reach.
Nobody knew that woman’s mother
but legend has it she wasn’t a woman at all
but a giant prehistoric mermaid. She did her best,
but her kind was never meant to survive the treacheries
of evolution. Oh, lighten up. So your parents got divorced,
and when they fought you went outside to play
but all your toys were hanging in a net at the top of a tree,
including the transformer truck you got for your birthday,
and there was a bird making a nest in it.
Why couldn’t you see any beauty in that?
Glory
Visual stream 04;
Glory rainbow
This is 04 Flow of images that had been on my mind recently.
A glory is an optical phenomenon, resembling an iconic saint's halo around the shadow of the observer's head, caused by sunlight or (more rarely) moonlight interacting with the tiny water droplets that comprise mist or clouds. The glory consists of one or more concentric, successively dimmer rings, each of which is red on the outside and bluish towards the centre. Due to its appearance, the phenomenon is sometimes mistaken for a circular rainbow, but the latter has a much larger diameter and is caused by different physical processes.
Glories arise due to wave interference of light internally refracted within small droplets. (wiki)
Oil spills
Visual stream 03;
Oil spills on the ocean waters
This is 03 Flow of images that had been on my mind recently. Massive oil spills on ocean waters.
Solid Material
Back to the beginning of the year, I was engraving some stuff on car hoods, which, at that time, was something calming me down. It had something of a vandal act that attracted me here - to scratch on a car's shiny lacquer with a drill. Or maybe it was about quoting Oscar Wilde on the hood of a car that attracted me the most, the one that said 'All Art is Quite Useless.'
I imagined these hoods hanging on the wall in someone's white interiors, with huge windows and a beautiful dining table with flowers on it. Back at that time, I didn't have the energy nor the idea what to do with it, so I probably thought that I manifested this with Wilde’s quote - I put them away in my parents' backyard.
I went back there yesterday to melt some plastic objects, and here I found this one with Tessa Berring’s quote that I really liked, weathered by conditions and time - I love it
Melting
Here is something I've been experiencing lately: an intense desire to melt every single plastic object I come across. With a heatwave gripping the city and images of wildfires from around the world filling my mind, I find myself wandering around observing plastic trash containers, scooters, plastic garden furniture, car parts, traffic cones, and plastic barriers—all in a state of melting. The act of melting plastic is one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
There is this text that my friend wrote for my project Fondue, which starts with a sentence:
Semantically, there’s no difference between melting cheese and melting a car’s lamp. Both are pleasing, both are intriguing, and in terms of both - eventual consequences are unknown.
Surviving Jesus Age
some thoughts on getting older.
Phoenix Art Museum, 2018 by Laura Villareal
Long ago I learned the trick,
walk away when you see
your own reflection.
Walk into the hard swallow,
unflinching as it is. Uncertainty
unfolds like a firefly’s flicker. I know
my body must be swarmed.
What overwhelms me?—
Accumulation,
panoramic & breathing. Clutter
in my heart with many exits.
I am
amazed I have lived
this long. In the dark,
I hold one
strung
light, small as a pin, to my face
as if it will illuminate
the way out,
but like this room
my thicket of worry
eclipses
anything
giving way to light.
Building Demolition
Visual stream of consciousness 02;
Building Demolition
This is 02 Flow of images that had been on my mind recently.
Jody Gladding, "Art is an Act"
The most beautiful word is TRESPASS
Jody Gladding, "Art is an Act"
#poetry
not self
of violence
against will not be gainsaid
will brook no argument
won't suffer the fools
gladly
would I climb a
mountain of salt with you
before dawn lodestar my freight the violent
silence the most beautiful word
is
trespass
Structure Relocation
Visual stream of consciousness 01;
Building Relocation Structure
This is 01 Flow of images that had been on my mind recently.
A structure relocation is the process of moving a structure from one location to another. There are two main ways for a structure to be moved: disassembling and then reassembling it at the required destination, or transporting it whole. For the latter, the building is first raised and then may be pushed on temporary rails or dollies if the distance is short. Otherwise, wheels, such as flatbed trucks, are used. These moves can be complicated and require the removal of protruding parts of the building, such as the chimney, as well as obstacles along the journey, such as overhead cables and trees. (Wiki)
