At this point, I do not want to close the topic too quickly or pretend that I already have all the answers. What feels more realistic, and more useful for my future master’s thesis, is to treat this phase as the beginning of a longer process. Instead of ending with a final conclusion, I want to move toward a format in which the research can continue through practice.
One direction that feels especially right to me is to use an exhibition as the starting point of the thesis. I imagine it as a space built around different kinds of illusion, perception shifts, hidden meanings. But the exhibition would not function only as a final presentation of work. It would also become part of the research itself. What interests me is not only how to create these visual situations, but how people move through them, where they stop, what confuses them, what attracts them, what they remember, and what kind of emotional response they produce.
This feels important because it gives me a way to connect theory and practice more honestly. Until now, I have been researching attention, memorability, ambiguity, emotional response, and viewer participation mostly through writing, references, and examples. The exhibition could become the point where these questions are tested in a direct way. It would allow me to observe reactions, collect impressions, and continue the research based on actual experience rather than only assumptions.
For that reason, I see the next step not as finishing the topic, but as building the conditions to study it further. I want the master’s thesis to begin with making, observing, and then writing from that material. The practical work would come first, but not as something separate from research. It would become the source from which the next questions emerge. In that way, the project can stay open, but also become more precise through the responses it provokes.
