The thesis deals with the human-nature relationship, the impacts on human perception and the concept of sensory retreat, carried out through practical work using the dérive method or drift. Devised in 1956, theorist and philosopher Guy Debord describes it as "aimless, random drift- ing through a place, guided by whim and an awareness of how different spaces draw you in or repel you". The first part of my thesis focuses on the differentiation between anthropogenic and natural and the perception of natural. However, as a retreat largely affects the perception itself, the second part of the thesis centers on perception, presenting various ways of achieving a drift from the usual perception and the ways in which we can influence or even change it. In its practical part, the thesis encompasses a photographic cycle and autoreflection of the pho- tographs, illustrating a sensory retreat to nature as a method of deepening our connectedness with nature.
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