I decided to do my digital project on “Contact Lenses” by Audre Lorde. After reading it over and over again, I really got to understand the poem a lot better. This poem can be interpreted in many different ways. I see this poem symbolizing self discovery through daily life struggles. While at the same time this is like a love poem. The contact lenses represent a break away from the fantasies society put into our heads. All along we structure our lives through the happily -ever- after  endings we see in movies, and the fairy tale love stories.  We end up seeing only what we want to see in our relationships. We start being less logical and lose ourselves. So this poem is about the journey back to facing reality and finding ourselves again/ realizing that relationships is not like the movies.

I am not too entirely sure what I am going to do for the visual part of this project, but I imagine the beginning of the video being blurry. Although it is blurry in the beginning, the video gets clearer and clearer as it progresses. I want my video to feel like a persons dream. The video is representing the fairytale mindset we live in and the video is suppose to guide the audience back to reality. I might be taking a lot of different clips from different chick flicks/ romance movies and putting them all together to display this dream stage. While in the end I will show a short clip of an actual couple oor a single person. I am not sure yet.