Sunday Ingredients

Practice part 1: Ingredients

In this project titled Sunday Ingredients, I photographed the objects I touched with my hands throughout the day on and arranged them sequentially based on the time of interaction, creating a list of objects. These items constitute my day on that Sunday—The Ingredients of 9.29.2024.

I believe that daily life is made up of countless ordinary, trivial matters, and each of these small events is triggered by an object. For instance, drinking water as an activity might be initiated by a bottle of mineral water, or perhaps by a combination of a cup and a faucet. Therefore, the mineral water bottle itself, or the combination of a cup and a faucet, can imply an action—in this case, drinking water. When we document a series of objects, we can imagine and deduce a sequence of behavioral trajectories. For example, if the table shows remnants such as a candy wrapper, a book, a pair of glasses, and a mouse, we might visualize that the owner of these objects was perhaps sketching while eating candy at some point. However, we cannot definitively state that the owner removed their glasses, read a book, ate a candy, and then played with the mouse this morning. This is because these objects form an overlapping trace of different moments, each leaving behind its own mark.

Desk Composition

The hand is the agent of intentional choice. It serves as the bridge connecting my mind to the outside world. If I were an ant, the hand would be my antenna; if I were an elephant, it would be my trunk. The act of touching an object with the hand represents the embodiment of will. When an object is actively touched by the hand, it reflects the need of that particular moment. Thus, when the touched objects are linked together in chronological order, they record my life. If I touch the faucet, refrigerator door handle, milk, cup, and bread in succession, these objects collectively suggest the event of breakfast.

Breakfast Sequential Items

In this project, I documented the main objects my hands actively touched on Sunday, 9.29, starting from when I woke up until I lay in bed preparing to sleep. I sorted them chronologically and divided them into eight time segments.

The Ingredients OF 9.29.2024.

Practice part 2: Collage

After collecting these objects that reflect my activities throughout the day, I wanted to use these “ingredients” to create a collage that represents my day. I took a photo of my hand from that day and used all the objects I interacted with as materials to collage an image of my hand. This collage, titled Hand of 9/29/2024, symbolizes my day.

HANDS OF 9.29.2024

65 Ingredient Item’s Photoes

Library Resource

For the target image, I converted it into a grayscale image and divided it into 15×20 small squares. Then, I compared each target square with the material squares in the library one by one and selected the closest match to replace the original square.

In my comparison function, I used OpenCV’s Canny Edge Detection, ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF), and SSIM (Structural Similarity Index Measure) to perform a comprehensive similarity analysis between the target image and images from the library.

1. 1. 1. 1. Convert the target image and library images into edge maps using Canny edge detection.
         2. Use ORB to compare the similarity between the edge maps of the target image and the library images.
         3. If the ORB similarity score is greater than the set threshold value (e.g., 0.5), then proceed to evaluate further.
         4. Scoring mechanism: Calculate the SSIM value between the grayscale version of the original target image and the grayscale library image. Then, combine the SSIM score with the ORB score using a weighted formula. The weights are yet to be determined and represented as variables for now.