Open AccessThrough a Stereoscopic Viewer: Transient Moments in Remembered Thyme
Author(s) -
Cynthia M. Morawski
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1927-6117
DOI - 10.37119/ojs2010.v16i2.100
Subject(s) - visual arts , yesterday , stereoscopy , art , sight , poetry , history , computer science , literature , artificial intelligence , optics , physics , astronomy
From the emulsion of images taken yesterday, we develop our engagement in time today—the then that is always changing into now. Weathered shutters close together. Driftwood shifts on rocky sand. Sedges grow among the seashells. Grasses ground a concert band. Seen through the sights of a stereoscopic viewer, the author uses both her word and image to travel through presents in retaken pasts—portals into the practice of her language arts classroom life. The thought of a carousel going round, turns writing into other ways for words to resound. The recollection of sepia on a rooftop at night changes voice into variegations of color and light. It is in these moments of remembered scenes that the author reconsiders what her teaching means.Keywords: writing; photographic inquiry; poetic inquiry; English Language Arts