VISUAL EXPLORATION

Andreea Barbu
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power of vulnerability
intervention: connection

Fallen Angels, director Kar Wai-Wong

how are you, really?

when is the last time you cried (and why?)

who's someone you admire and why?

how did you get over your first love?

what's a favorite part of yourself (that isn't physical)?

why do you think it's so hard for people to be vulnerable?

(perception of me)

INTERVENTION: CONNECTION

(responses are kept anonymous to respect privacy)

SELF-MADE visual exploration and depiction

REFLECTION

People were more likely to open up than I initially expected; I received a lot of responses and people weren’t thrown off by the questions.

I think one thing that might have played part in this is that dating apps as we use them right now end up being boring, disappointing or simply not stimulating (only the base questions of “where are you from?”, “what do you study?” which is not really the way to really get to know someone). Thus people who I didn’t have much or any interaction/conversation with prior to this also openly responded, which was really interesting.

In the observations for Teana I set the “seeking:” to female only as most of the time you can have platonic/casual discussions with them while guys have less patience for conversation (from personal use experience of the past 1-2 years). Afterwards I decided to not limit it to a specific gender as I also reached out to people that I matched prior but that I never really connected with.

I also feel like people take more time now to connect over text as most people are (understandably) not meeting up to go on dates. I think even if the situation right now and for the past months is hard on us in a bunch of ways, people’s hearts feel more open and more accepting of connection emotionally.