Can You Tickle The Sun's Rays?

  • Dates
    2012 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Daily Life
  • Locations La Ciotat, Bali, Kyoto, Brittany, Malang, Ende, Surakarta, Province of Livorno, Karuizawa

This photo series encourages you to blend your senses, suggesting that each image can be felt or heard.

This photo series is a meditative exploration of the senses, inspired by the phenomenon of multi-sensorial integration and synesthesia. The images, taken across various landscapes and moments, are an invitation to experience more than just the visual—each photo asks if it’s possible to hear, feel, or even smell the world within the frame.

Through texture, color, and composition, the series contemplates how a photograph can evoke a full-bodied sensory experience, as smell can bring visual memories. Research suggests that memories become more vivid and lasting when multiple senses are engaged, and this series gently probes that idea: Can you smell the rustling leaves? Hear the sand grains on the skin? Taste the sea breeze? By blurring the boundaries between senses, these images provoke a deeper contemplation of how we experience and remember the world.

After all, can you truly see the world without hearing its stories and feeling its textures?

Can You Tickle The Sun's Rays? by Dea Ardyanda

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