Day 31: RESPONSE TO CONFESSIONS DAY THREE

Out of todays confessions, my favorite was done by Andrew Munoz. For his piece, he edited together the sounds of someone walking through the woods, including sounds of birds, insects, bears, and the ground crunching under-foot. To present the sound, we all sat in the room with the lights off, the room blacked out into complete and utter darkness (with the exception of a quick burst of light when the door opened to let in a late classmate), and listened to it through surround sound speakers. His confession was the he was, and still is, afraid of the dark. He told a story that marked the start of this fear. When he was 6 he wandered off into the woods on a camping trip at night, only to be found hours and hours later by the rangers, crying, only feet from a family of bears. His presentation made for a truly unique viewer experience. Rather than simply listening to his confession, or showing us what happened visually, he succeeded in putting the viewer in a seemingly vulnerable position, pulling out the same kind of feelings of vulnerability that he may have felt, leading to his confessed fear. This may have been my favorite confession out of all that we have seen because of this very experience aspect. hats off!