Feel With Your Eyes

Lesson #1:  When on the streets of New York, always have your camera at the ready. Think The Sartorialist, a guy who built a huge career around this. I  missed a great opportunity when a perfectly groomed fellow in summer white denim shorts, sunglasses, gelled coif sporting a loud pink t-shirt with lettering spanning the length and breadth of his body that read “TOUCH IS OVERRATED. FEEL WITH YOUR EYES” approached. Try to conjure him. He was a poster boy for this blog and I missed him!  Synesthesia is the neurological condition of cross sensory perception. Among those that have it, when one sense is triggered it creates impulses in others (see ‘loud pink’ above). This leads to an intensifying of experience and therefore memory and perception. Kind of trippy…. and yet when it comes to seeing, I would imagine for most of us, our eyes are an instrument of feeling….certainly something to aspire to.