As I look back at my previous post, I feel like I did not give the space any justice. As I peeked through the photos from last week’s exercise, I see that there was actually a lot of beauty in the place that I have missed because I focused on a particular subject- nature vs capitalism.
For this week, I move forward in search of a different space. I arrived in Granville Island, the perfect place to reflect and notice. Surrounded by the water and an overwhelming number of tourists, I found a spot that helped me reflect back on the previous post I had.
This spot had a lot of symmetry too. But although it was filled with stores, shops, and visitors from all over, capitalism was not in the picture.
I think that there was a very important subject that I have missed when looking at space like this, and that is people.
How people interact with a space, admire it, question it, interpret it.
Did anyone else wonder why the walls had to be blue? Was there an intention for that? Why was this done in this particular way/order? What could be changed? Can it change? Who was involved in the creative process of creating this space?
