figure 7.

This image is unique to all of the previous images because they were the first people that I captured who I could recognize, were persons of colour (POC). I could not tell with the other people because they were either too far away, or the lighting was too dark, or I just assumed that most of them were Caucasian.

This picture reminded me of my parents. In taking the picture, I was transported to my childhood, when we would take "family walks," and I would think nothing of my parents walking together. By experiencing this again from an outside perspective, my perception of my parents' physical connection has changed slightly. It made me feel contemplative and sad because it caused reflection on change and growing up. I do not know what these two's situation is, but my parents (who are also POC) immigrated to Calgary when they were young and they started their whole lives here. They built everything from rock bottom. And here I was, lucky enough to be experiencing the same sunset that all of these other people (who may or may not have had similar experiences) got to also experience. I think that taking this picture made me reflect on Elkins and our lecture on feeling. That by looking at an image or artwork, one can be moved to tears because of personal memories associated with the picture, or any connection that a human might feel by looking at that piece of art.

The house in the background against the blue/lilac sky captured this contemplative mood, and the lights on in the house (in picture 1) show that there is life inside that house. There is life inside the car with its lights on-- all around us, life is so very real. It sort of made me feel alive myself, knowing that all of these people have made a family or home for themselves and that emotions are the thing that most likely facilitated their life decisions in buying this house, buying that car, etc.

figure 7: picture 1