#247, Dress
Original file of The Dress from 2015
When you looked at the dress in class, you knew the colors you saw. There was no uncertainty, no hesitation. Just two colors. You jotted them down confidently, folded your paper, and handed it in. Yet, when the colors of the dress were read aloud from each person's slip of paper, they didn't match. In fact, sometimes one or both of the colors were completely different from the last.
What?
When you perceive something—whether it be the taste of chocolate or the feeling of a pencil in your hand or the color of some dress—it is not passive, but active creation. What you see and experience is filtered through your lens of experience and DNA and exposure to light and shadow. Something as fundamental as the color of a dress is literally different for all of us. The reality you experience is unlike that of anyone else.
To complete this Journal response, address the following:
(A) How did you feel when you heard different colors being read aloud? (B) What is your personal takeaway from this experience?
Comment on a peer’s response.
-Brenden Lee Teacher