Reflection 1-2

The recognition of the brain.

To see is not to believe. We should always question what we see and what we think. The messages that the brain delivered are not always true. The brain is so complex that is why I want people to rethink themselves. There would be more interesting experiments about the two halves brain. Something we have got to used be might hide secrets. The notions of left and right have a deep influence on the way we experience the world.

Reflection 1-1

The conversation with the left and the right hand.

Keeping drawing with my non-dominant hand then I have gotten my own thoughts and feelings flowing out. The experience is so unique and private, it seems that there is different person in my body, another myself. Capacchione (2001) states that it may help to create two characters in your mind, one who represents your heart’s desire and the other who speaks for your block. This might be an opportunity to uncover deeper inner self and to unveil the hidden messages in our mind.

Experiment 1-1

Collect a number of the celebrity faces and create new faces (doubled left half on the right and doubled right half on the left). Then I made a “Face eye chart” by using these symmetrical but odd faces.

Most people feel the real faces of the celebrities look more like their right half. The doubled left half faces look like someone else. In some sense we resemble the right side of our faces more than we resemble the left. By this practice work, I want to give people a hint which is we should always question what we see and even what we think. The messages that the brain delivered are not always true. The brain is so complex that is why I want people to rethink themselves. Inner self could be somewhere waiting for exploring.

Practice 1-1

On the right half, I used the right hand to draw the right brain and wrote down the meaning of 'right' from different culture. On the other half, I used the left hand to draw the left brain and wrote down the meaning of 'left' in mirror direction.

Research 1-3

Most people know that the left face and the right face may be different slightly. The fact less well known is the two halves of the face have different roles which are the recognition of someone's identity and  the interpretation of the emotional state.

"it's the left side of the face that does most to determine which emotions others see in it ...Around eight out of ten people turned out to base their assessment of the depicted character's mood mainly on the left side" (Smits, 2011, p. 143).

(the middle picture shows their face, with below it a doubled left half on the right and a doubled right half ont he left.)

"people feel an image of the right half of a face filled in with a mirror image of that same half bears a greater resemblance to the person depicted than a composite photo made of two images of the left half " (Smits, 2011, p. 143, 144). "in all circumstances it looks more like itself than the left side, which has greater tendency to change according to the mood of its owner" (Smits, 2011, p. 146). 

Smits, R. (2001) The Puzzle of Left-handedness, pp. 143, 144, 146.

Research 1-2

Cultural Theories

Mapuche (Chile, South America)

Right                 Left

good                   evil

life                      death

day                     night

health                 sickness
ancestral spirits   wekufe (evil spirits)
shaman               sorcerer

afterworld           underworld

abundance          poverty
fullness               hunger

English Language Dictionary and Thesaurus 

Right                                         Left                  Left-Handed

correct              straight              clumsy              crippled

direct                true                    awkward          defective
equitable          unswerving       insincere            underhanded  dealing

duty                  upright              indirect              ambiguous

fair                    virtuous            weak                 doubtful

good                                          worthless           questionable

honest                                        gauche              ill-omened

just                                             sinister              inauspicious
lawful                                                                 sinister
perpendicular                                                      unpropitious
privilege
rightful

English Derivation for Left

Language        Word for Left                    Other Meanings
Hindi                Khabba  labra                    weakness, dishonour 

Arab                 usrawi                                weakness, dishonour 

Turkish             solak                                  weakness, dishonour 

Russian             lievia                                  weakness, dishonour 
Chinese            young tso show teih tso      counter, oppose
German            das linksseyn link               someone awkward

French              gauche                               (orig. meaning-bent)

English             gauche                                clumsy, awkward

                         gawky (slang)                     clumsy, awkward                        
                         sinister                                evil

Danish              venstre                                evil

Swedish            wanstre                               evil
Iclandic             vinstri                                 evil

Spanish            zurdo(left-handed)              malicious, going in the wrong diection

                         non se zurdo                      "Don't be stupid."

Italian               mancini                               defective, maimed
                                                                    deceitful (from mancus- maimed)
                         stanca (left-handedness)     fatigued
Portuguese       conhoto (left[handedness)   weak, mischievous
Russian            leja (left-hander)                  (insult), sneakiness
Romany           bongo (left-hand)                evil, crooked
(Gypsy language) 

Capacchione, L. (2001) The Power of Your Other Hand: A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain. Revised edition. Franklin Lakes, NJ, New page books, p.38, p.40.

Research 1-1

Right/Left Brain Theory

Illustration of Hand / Brain Dominance

"One would expect left-handers to be the opposite of right-handers - that is, with language centers in the right brain. It turns out that this is not the case. A two-thirds majority of left-handers have language centers in the left brain, the same as right-handers. Only oen-third of left-handed people have language centers in the right side of the brain, We don't know why this is so."

Capacchione, L. (2001) The Power of Your Other Hand: A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain. Revised edition. Franklin Lakes, NJ, New page books, p.35.