harbour/paper.trail
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explorer

before and after

document a space before you change it — then change something small, and capture it again. explore how tiny interventions shift the whole picture.

materials

  • camera
  • one small moveable object (a cup
  • a book
  • a shoe
  • a plant)

instructions

  1. 1

    find a scene — a desk, a shelf, a table, a patch of ground. photograph it exactly as it is.

  2. 2

    change one thing. move an object, add something, remove something. keep the change small.

  3. 3

    photograph the scene again from the same angle.

  4. 4

    annotate both captures: stamp the thing that changed, and use arrows to point at anything else that looks different because of the change.

  5. 5

    reflect: did the small change affect more than you expected? what else shifted — balance, mood, focus?

capture prompts

skills:observationcritical thinkingspatial reasoningreflection