Sketches: part two

this post is the second in a series of responses to a child's notebook found at the Edmonton Reuse Centre

My favourite part about this picture is that the clouds look just like the snow caps on the mountains, but flipped upside-down. I can imagine the picture beginning itself again, in reflection. The bodies of the mountains would extend upwards from what we now see as clouds, and perhaps a third cloud might be added, a darker, stormy one, which, upside-down, would be a mountain as well, the opposite odd-one-out to the white-capped mountain already pictured on the right hand side. It can be surprisingly freeing to disorient yourself - once you get beyond the initial fear that comes with being upside-down or in a foreign place, a more playful sense sets in. I'm thinking of the month I spent learning handstands in a modern dance class, kicking upward in small increments, with a wall at my back to stop me, and then later, vaulting up into a handstand in the middle of the room, and reveling in the dizzying disorientation. When my feet touched the floor again, I had no idea what I'd looked like in the air - maybe I didn't reach a handstand at all, maybe I only manageda 45 degree angle from the floor. But it's that feeling of disorientation that's more important to me - the same dizzying freedom that I find when I travel, after I've made all necessary precautions against pickpockets, when I walk down a street just staring at everything all at once. Is there a way to achieve that same dizzying disorientation, and the freedom that comes with it, in a city that you know so well as your home? Walking around the city on your hands might be one method - it could certainly furnish a change of perspective - but despite my practice at handstands, a city tour of that type is not within my capabilities. I find something similar when I walk with my camera though. Fitting the sights I know well into frames I haven't yet composed forces me to reorient, if not disorient, myself. 

What do you do to achieve the freedom of disorientation at home?