Tickling Ivory
april 20th, 2009
client {
Self
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An idiomatic representation of my interest in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's concept of flow. As humans, we enter this state of flow when we become so involved in an activity that the entire world melts away. We forget both time and space, and our focus essentially becomes that activity. Hours pass like seconds and we engage in a kind of motion that is unlike anything else. I believe that it is this motion which embodies the beauty in life. It is this motion which transcends biology in favor of the true human experience. I became interested in understanding what brings flow to myself as well as others. To find out, I distributed a questionnaire to friends, family, and strangers. Some could identify an activity within seconds, and others had literally no idea what I was talking about. Tickling Ivory is a literal representation of one of the collected activities which brings flow to others.
