Emotional Mapping Report from Christopher

looks like the directions/emotions changed a few times so hopefully this fits into the current plan...

awe: Bondi Cliffs... Swimming in the ocean at Bondi getting beat up by the waves. I can't think of anywhere in New York - maybe occasionally at Art shows in New York (The only one that comes to mind was the Robert Wilson video installation of Snow Owls). Visiting a particular old dance-hall building, now demolished, in Times Square (NW corner 46th + B'way) always stopped me to the bone.

home [safe, secure, protected, at peace, at rest]: (Predictably) my apartment... Occasionally in NY crowds, Can't really remember feeling that way in Australia except maybe going to Carly's house.

displacement [uncomfortable, foreign, an outsider, disconnected] - I used to feel disconnected walking in Midtown but now I'm used to it.... Times Square makes me feel really disconnected... Being under-dressed to chi-chi events maybe! Walking the northern end of elizabeth street in sydney, just north of whatever street oxford turns into (liverpool street?)

immersion - NY Crowds sometimes.... Walking the length of Houston Street after going to see a movie at film forum by myself, Going to Eisenburg's Restaurant (5th Ave near 22nd, west side)...

sublime - The first time I went to the world trade center site, which was around twilight, the scale of the hole in the ground got me. But every time I've returned there I've never felt the sublime again - it seems more like a tourist attraction. The cliffs of bondi and the gap in sydney.

frustration/conflict - Trying to go places in NY when the trains/buses/cabs/crowds don't cooperate... When I lived on the upper east side going from the west side of central park to the east side, or vise-versa. And I had had to deal with the 4/5/6 train commute, which was hell during rush-hour at the 86th street station. Moving to brooklyn has taken away most of the frustration/conflict!