I printed the individual participant’s emotions directly onto individual acrylic slides. These emotion slides reminded me of a ‘petri dish’, the way the emotions were captured and displayed on the clear acrylic slides ready for further investigation. This enabled me to stack the individual emotion maps, and see the different maps overlay on top of each other like the earlier two-dimensional overlays.

By printing on acrylic slides, I could display them on a support base that had lines cut to allow for them to be presented in any order. The spacing of the lines in the support base created depth between the individual emotion maps, and one could distinguish one emotion from another or view them collectively. I also appreciated how the edges of the emotion maps started to blur when stacked next to each other, removing the boundaries and hard edges from the maps. This blurring of the boundaries on the emotion maps mimicked how one’s emotions are not fixed, and forever changing, and it made sense that these emotion area shapes would dissipate or fade. These petri dish emotion maps became samples of emotion areas within the park, allowing one to add or subtract samples and compare them directly or to one another