NOTA BENE

As I am closing up two-thirds of the humanities core classes, there is one thing I'd like to note. In all of my prior pages, I have placed a header image before I began my archive, yet I had failed to explain why I chose such images to be the first thing viewers saw. You could argue that this was merely a creative choice to make my pages look nicer and more organized. However, for the most part, I chose the images to allude to viewers how my archive would go even before beginning it. Looking back at my first digital archive titled "I Am Nobody", I chose an image of sketched-out heads where you could not see their faces. By doing so, I foreshadowed to viewers that there is not always one person to look at, and that rather you have to consider the whole picture as I explain later in my archive the "other" perspective in the Odyssey.

Now with this specific header image, artist Lee Serenethos writes in his description of the three men, "First steps into past time. The middle is in the present. Man on right stepping out of time or into the future". For this archive, I will be doing the same as I will look into the past, consider it in the present, and make notions for the future. 

Bringing It Forward

                                                                                                           Tanaka, Tatsuya. 7 Sept. 2023. 

As I end my final digital archive for the winter quarter, I'd like to reflect on my own progress as a Humanities Core student. Coming into this course series, I did not know much about worldbuilding. While I live in the process of worldbuilding as I see the world change and build in my everyday life and from the works I have come across, I've been able to gain a deeper understanding of what worldbuilding is from these courses. I expressed in my first digital archive that I hope to gather material and utilize it to build my "perfect" world. From my own perspective, I have been able to fulfill my hopes as I gathered that world views, artifacts, etc. can continue to change their meaning as the world moves forward. Today, I was able to pursue how a social/cultural artifact has changed its purpose to fit a new world and in the same way, I hope my ideas and attitudes change to fit my ever-changing world. Emerging from my own collection, and from viewing the many archives of my classmates, I have learnt that everyone has their own world as well as their own way of worldbuilding. One way is not better than the other as each individual has a different speculation of what worldbuilding is and how it should be done.

While I have not spent much time thinking about what research path I want to pursue in the Spring, one of the many things I am interested in is hostile architecture. Possibly in the near future, I might be able to find primary sources about hostile architecture and connect it to how it relates to a rather restricted form of worldbuilding as we see homeless people being regulated in the way they live and survive in the world.