Use synesthesia to create a short text rooted in images. Synesthesia means talking about the use of one sense in terms of another i.e. hearing a color. Concentrate on using synesthesia to make specific, concrete, and enstranged images. Senses include sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
Rationale: Sometimes when we write, we get caught up in trying to make our images true. Using synesthesia allows us to keep the truth of an image while making it strange and something different from our experience of reality.
For later: Take an image that interests you from this assignment and build a story, poem, or essay around it. Invent a charater based on their experience of synesthesia.
*Adapted from The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley.
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