Meditation Final Synthesis Paper - Reed


At the UMMA (the university of Michigan museum of art) one of there current exhibits is a bunch of original and very famous pictures. The prints are not reproductions or some type of photo copies of the original but the actual print that the photographer took hours to print and get perfect and I thought that it would be a great thing to do my meditation final on. For our final we were supposed to get the vibrations from several nonhuman items and record our results. Some time about a month ago Zosia and I set out to get vibrations from the pictures and these are my results.


Felix Bonfils- “Palmyra: a sculptured capital, Syria”
My hands were slightly warm and my ring finger and my pinky finger are tingly.

Timothy H. O’Sullivan- “Ancient ruins the canon de chelle”
Very cool, almost like a breeze on my hands, no tingles at all.

Emmet Gowin- “Siena, Italy”
Also cool, not like a breeze like the last one but more like a temperature drop, also no tingles

Alexander Gardner- “Home of rebel sharpshooter, Gettysburg”
My hands are not exactly cool or warm. Last 3 fingers (middle, ring and pinky) on both hands are tingly.

Alfred Stieglitz- “Georgia O’Keeffe”
My right hand is warm and nothing is tingly

Man ray “solarization”
Waves of warm and cool. Very indecisive. Left index is slightly tingly. I am not really sure about this one… I didn’t think that it could be both warm and cool feeling…

Yousuf Karsh “Albert Einstein”
My pinky and ring finger on my right hand are tingly

Lorna Simpson “country”
All over both of my hands are warm and tingly except my thumbs.

Eugene Attget “Versailles, con de parc”
Cool and almost breezy like Timothy H. O’Sullivan- “Ancient ruins the canon de chelle”, nothing is tingly.

Harold e. Edgerton “.30 bullet piercing an apple”
Palms are warm but not my fingers and nothing feels tingly.

All in all some of the vibrations I got surprised me, like I thought that since the first landscape picture was cool that perhaps another one would be but it wasn’t, and some I am a bit confused about, like the one where it was waves of cool and warm. Something I thought was the interesting was that if Zosia and I both looked at a photograph that without telling each other what we felt we got the same feelings on our hands. I thought that this assignment was pretty cool.

-- Reed Fannin

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