Museum visits

SCIENCE MUSEUM 

ALL photos on this post, are Author's own

At the very top of the science museum I found a small section on psychology and in particular how to connect with your subconscious and what it can tell us. What I found most useful from this section was within this exhibition was a list of old tools and games that can be played in order to connect with one's mind. What I would like to do would be to research into these and they try them out on myself and other people to see the result. One thing that I found within this section and around the medical part of the museum was that it seemed quite dark and unfriendly - medical things and illnesses (even mental illness) seems to be given this old view.  I didn't like the mood of this exhibition and really wanted to leave as soon as possible - I hope that the animation that i make is able to avoid such atmosphere and will let others understand anxiety more. I have been reading up on Freud's interpretation of dreams as well as other books about the subconscious mind - he expresses how our dreams on anxiety can be traced back to childhood trauma - or a realization.













When I went to the science museum the exhibition that I had planned to visit was actually not open - I then instead decided to look around the science museum to see whether I could find any information about anxiety or the subconscious mind. Thankfully, I found a whole area dedicated to Freud and ways to access the unconscious mind. However other than finding out about this topic. I also had a look around some of the exhibitions they had downstairs. Here I found a lovely collection of  casts made from a carving. I really liked how the negative space was used to create a mold for a sculpture. And this idea of there being two sides to this story intrigued me. I found both pieces really beautiful, yet only one was made to be shown. This the got me thinking about how anxiety is often hidden by the stressor and from the stressor.  Anxiety can sometimes just escalate without a person even thinking about it because it is stored within the subconscious mind - when something that sets of the anxiety from a past experience then the anxiety will be reawaken. I also like the potential idea of seeing the anxiety. What would the anxiety look inside of the person? What characteristics would it have? (Maybe a possible route to look down during my idea development stage.)

I also photographed some mechanical objects - this is because the human body is like a mechanical object - all bodies work generally in the same way. They operate in a way that keeps up all alive and ticking. How does anxiety tie into this? And is their a particular way that anxiety works on the subconscious. Is it mechanical like these objects or is it a bit more free and unpredictable. Lastly would anxiety make you feel the same way each time? These are questions that I will hopefully get to answer through mroe research and surreys

BRITISH MUSEUM 

Below are some photographs that I took at the British Museum. My intention for going to this particular museum was so that I could look at how historical cultures looked into the topic of the subconscious mind and or Anxiety. When researching online before I went to the British Museum I saw that they had an exhibition on Egyptian hieroglyphics - but more interestingly a section on an Egyptian dream interpretation. Although of course this isn't scientific it let me explore another way that the subconscious mind was recorded. In dreams - perhaps i should look into my own dreams to find anxieties that I have about my own life and etc. Lastly the Egyptian art was beautiful and used very beautiful colours.