translation: sensory experience to knowledge

Tick

Laughing at the memory of an anxiety inducing experience

         Tock

I feel light and airy

  Tick

the conversation deepens

                                 Tock

Guttural laughter transforms into watery eyes

Tick

New revelations.

                                               Tock

New meanings.

             Tick

New understandings.

                                                            Tock

I never thought of it this way before. It makes perfect sense.

            Tick

My heart knew it.

Tock

My chest feels heavy.

Tick

A sigh of relief. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Tock

It didn't piss them off.

Tick

         Tock

Tick

                                 Tock

Tick

Tick

The heaviness lifts.

                                 Tock

I look into their eyes

Tick

....glassy

                                 Tock

My throat tightens

Tick

My chest feels heavy

                                  Tick

Our eyes lock. A deeper look. A recognition

Tock

Slight smiles.

                                  Tick

Again the weight lifts.

Tock

But it didn’t leave, it’s looming above.

                                  Tick

Ready to drop.

Tick 

A response to:
"Exercise 6 Self in the World, the World in the Self..." found in: 

Culhane, Dara (2016) "SENSING," in Elliott, Denielle and Dara Culhane, Eds. A DIFFERENT KIND OF ETHNOGRAPHY: IMAGINATIVE PRACTICES AND CREATIVE METHODOLOGIES. University of Toronto Press.
and cosindering
Navaro-Yashin (2009) “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects:  ruination and the production of anthropological knowledge,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.) 15: 1-18

This was originally posted: October 25, 2016 for an assignment in Dr. Dara Culhane's course at SFU: SA 875- Ethnographic Methodology