Be Stupid!

What’s the potential of a matchbox?


It can make fire!


In order to make fire you need to make the effort of striking the matchstick.


The wind blows it out!


You light another stick making sure you take cover.


The match is lit!


You use it to light a candle to spread light…
or
You use it to light your smoke…
or
You use it to set someone else’s house on fire…
or
You use it to cook food…


All this from one matchbox!


Similarly, every individual has a potential…


Stupid Eye aims at exploring that true potential in every individual…


How one uses that potential is their call!

Starting July 2012 - 14 courageous participants decided to embark on the journey of Stupid Eye along with Psychologist Harsheen K. Arora and Artist Vipul Amar to discover what fire lies within each one of them.

The participants attended group and individual therapy sessions with Harsheen and Vipul before an elaborate concept shoot was designed for them.

“The Revealing” or the process of finally disclosing the stupid eye frame to each participant was an experience that broke many a barrier and burnt many veils. Reactions varied from bouts of tears often of joy to absolute numb speechlessness, each participant went through their own personal transformation, carrying with themselves a mirror of their being as a memoir and reminder.

What started out, as a journey of self-discovery and wonderment for the participants and the two artists is now a published research at the World Mental Health Congress, 2013. Also, the Stupid Eye Research is now due to be presented at the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology in Paris in July 2014., and the 7th World Congress of Psychotherapy in Durban, South Africa in August 2014.

The 14 frames were exhibited for the first time at the Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi from 28th April 2014 to 7th May 2014.

The event, called the stupid eye exhibition saw 1800 visitors over a period of 10 days. “People would casually walk in and end up spending hours at a stretch and some came back for seconds even thirds often getting more friends along” said Sameer, a volunteer at the exhibit.

The kind of feedback received was overwhelming people would often stare at the frames for thirty even forty minutes, then sit in a corner on the floor and write their interpretations. For Arora and Amar, It was pleasantly appalling how accurate most of the interpretations were. What was more enriching how ever was that each attempt at decoding the frames got them to get a baby step and in few cases leaps and bounds closer to their own ideal self.

As for Vipul and Harsheen, they have nothing but gratitude and joy to talk of

“We can’t thank enough, the participants of Stupid Eye and each visitor of the exhibition, Stupid eye has given to us more than we could ever make up to.” Says the “Double A Battery” as the team fondly calls the duo.

Stupid Eye - Realizing the Self through Therapeutic Imagery