If My Heart
Could Talk
Our heart
is one of the most important organs in the body. It beats relentlessly without
a break. Everybody knows the speed of a normal heartbeat, but how does it
change in stressful situations? How does it beat when we are happy and relaxed?
That is what I was trying to find out.
We can see
a persons exterior but we have no idea was happening on the inside. But what if
we could see what was going on in a person’s body. With this project I tried to
turn the invisible visible. Antoine de Saint-Exupery said that “it is only with
the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”1
But what if I were to make it visual? Three different people, three different
situations and three different hearts and thoughts that have been made visible
to the naked eye. The events that are usually captured with cameras are recorded
through their heartbeat. It is something more personal that just an image, it
is closer to a person and their heart.
This video
consists of three people’s heart beats, which were created from their thoughts
at the time that their heart rate was taken. The first one is of person that is
heartbroken because her husband lives in other country and she cannot see him
everyday. The second one is stressed just before the presentation. And the last
one is relaxed and happy, they have just been just woken up in bed with no need
to go anywhere.
1De Saint-Exupe ry, A., de
Saint-Exupéry, A., Woods, K. and de Saint-Exupery, A. (1991) The little prince.
London: Mammoth.
