Interrupting The Ordinary
Publication Date
Spring 3-2026
Presentation Length
Poster/Gallery presentation
College
Watkins College of Art
Department
Art, Department of
Student Level
Undergraduate
Faculty Mentor
Thomas Sturgill
Presentation Type
Gallery
Summary
Breaking everyday movement.
Our bodies move through the world guided by patterns we rarely notice. Ingrained habits, unspoken rules, and familiar pathways chosen without conscious thought. These movements are not purely our own; they exist within larger systems of influence, where environment, expectation, and memory converge to shape the way we inhabit space.
This work explores the tension between autonomy and conditioning, the space between what feels like choice and what has been quietly constructed for us. Movement becomes both evidence and inquiry, revealing the invisible architectures that organize our physical experience. In disrupting habitual patterns, the body enters a state of unfamiliarity, where perception sharpens and presence becomes unavoidable.
Awareness, then, is not passive; it is an active unraveling. A questioning of what directs us, and a reorientation toward intentionality.
What does it mean to truly choose a movement? To exist, even momentarily, outside of inherited pathways?
Recommended Citation
Cook, Eliza N., "Interrupting The Ordinary" (2026). SPARK Symposium Presentations. 781.
https://repository.belmont.edu/spark_presentations/781
