It's a little bit of a conundrum when you're tasked with a project whereby you put yourself into the shoes of a synaesthete -- or you project in your mind that you ARE a synaesthete -- and have to compile a curious collection in the style of something. I picked the lowly Travel Guide. Because I like digging marvelous holes for myself which I would then attempt to get out of at the end of the semester, and rather triumphantly.

I was thinking of calling it 'Hippocampus Walkabouts' Mainly because the sensorial overloads people have are due to the brain processes and the hippocampus is linked to memory, olfaction and most importantly, NAVIGATION. It is a travel guide, after all.

Following the rough outline of The Lonely Planet Guides, which I am quite rather fond of, I am going to do sensorial explorations of two lanes within the city (and later move on to more as it goes along) BUT there's a hook to this project: I have to do it by switching senses. I would have to TASTE words, SMELL colours, SEE sounds, HEAR textures and FEEL flavours.

As if that wasn't enough, I'd like to do it on the perspective of my scooter where I navigate the path of least resistance and feel the surfaces that I tread upon by the sounds the machine (and in part, I) make as it rolls across terrains.

That said, I like words so I'd probably end up doing most of my sensorial twistings based on words. I will taste, feel, smell, hear and see WORDS. It would be an insteresting thing to do to have pictures of something so personal and so subjective as a synaesthete's experience and then to have to exhibit it to the public as a definitive gallery.

So now to pick two sites so similar yet vastly different.
Ponderous pontifications.

Of course, this is a memo note to me so I don't get carried away.