Journal 3

Journal 3
Seeing 1 and 2
Rhiannon Austgen


Seeing 1
The first thing I see in Osorio's photo are the small baseball cards covering the entire bedroom wall. Other items that draw my attention are the bike in the middle of the room, the basketball lying on the bed, and the fists on the bed frame. Things I notice about these objects is that they all relate to physical sports. Osorio brings the typical male culture into this scene. Typical male culture includes things like the color blue, sports, trains, and other mechanical items. Obviously, I can infer from this bedroom that the teenager loves sports and being athletic. Based on the details in this photo I can infer that Osorio's photos and very generalized and synthetic.

Seeing 2
In my opinion, Osorio's photo doesn't capture realistically what a male teenager's bedroom looks like. It seems to generalize what all teenage men are interested in. Specifically, he generalizes that all teenage boys are interested in sports like, basketball, baseball, and boxing. This bedroom could be described as a fictional not fantasy bedroom because most families can afford a room with so much decoration and specific memorabilia. The difference between fiction and fantasy is that fiction is unrealistic but can very much happen, whereas fantasy cannot ever happen, it usually is just an image of the imagination.