Drift Assessment #2

Describe, with details, two situations during Drift 1 and/or 2 in which you felt unusually peaceful, at ease, or contemplative.

One situation where I felt completely at ease was during my second drift. One of my image strategies was capturing trees at strange angles. I was walking back to my house and there are multiple trees that hang over my driveway. The sun was setting and it created this interesting atmosphere light. I decided to lay down with my back on my driveway and to just take a bunch of straight up pictures of the overhanging trees. I meant to only stay there for a few minutes, but when I got up, it was twenty minutes later. I felt so relaxed laying there and the color of the sky was that gentle navy blue that I kept saying ‘a few more pictures, a few more pictures’. I wanted to capture that color so much that I would not move and I felt so comfortable laying there, that I didn’t want to move. A second situation where I felt completely at ease was during my first drift when I was recording the sound car tires make when they move over the cracks of the road. It is surprising that I felt so at ease on a busy road, but the sound pattern the tires made on the cracks of the road was almost hypnotic. It was the same pattern over and over and my mind began to concentrate only on that pattern and then began to wander, or “zone out”. I easily got fifteen minutes of recorded sound because it was such a nice sound to listen to