CCDN331: Project 2 - Critical Selfie

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Growing up in Wellington, I idolised the urban city. The glamour, the art, the formality, the modernity, the inspiration people and the fast paced lifestyle. I then moved away to a rural town where everything was slow, dirty and boring. Moving back to Wellington in 2012, everything became fun and colourful again as I felt alive. Until I grew up that year. I grew up, my eyes opened to the surroundings instead of the picture I had painted with my eyes of what I thought Wellington was. No longer eclectic and filled with art, I began to see the flaws in the society, the cracks in the pavement, potholes in the street.

 After living in the city for three years with my eyes open and ready to see, my view has changed. I can see the cracks, the shit, the faults and blemishes. But I can also see people trying to fix the flaws in our society. Using the idea of flâneurie to 'guide' my search, I want to look at more ways people are trying to fix the flaws in our society. I want to look at the visual society and what is being done to fix the world around us.

The images below where taken around Newtown, Mt Cook and Te Aro. This was my attempt at flâneurie, as I tried to find flaws in society I have never noticed before. It was from this excursion that I defined my critical perspective ti envelop the attempts at fixing these flaws within society - not just the flaws themselves.

Literary Review -

 Lucas, R. (2008). Taking a line for a walk: walking as an aesthetic practice. In T. Ingold & J. L. Vergunst (Eds.), Ways of Walking - Ethnography and Practice on Foot (pp. 168-184). United Kingdom.


 Looking at the reading by Raymond Lucas, the idea of the flâneur talks a lot about aimlessly wandering both with and without a purpose. This reading relates to my project as I attempted flâneurie in order to open my eyes to the city around me. I attempted to see what I had not seen before and how people show subtle interaction with these scenes. "His eyes open, his ear ready, searching for something entirely different from what the crowd gathers to see," (Lucas, 2008).













Haiku - 

I really want to voice a haiku that describes these flaws in society and the small attempt made at fixing them. Even though the remedy to these flaws may be small, the act itself is positive. I want the haiku to show a gradient from the dwelling idea of flaws to a positive feeling of an attempt at remedying these flaws.
  • Urban flaws, cracks, faults; Reparation in disguise; Temporary fix.
  • Societies done; Junk strewn across the street path; To be rained upon.
  • Toss the broken out; Does society bother; Attempt a repair.


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