Shapes & Thresholds: Session 2

Shapes & Thresholds is a hands-on workshop led by Paul David Mascot that explores how we see—images, composition, and the subtler ways perception shapes experience. Each session is one hour.

Using modular kits of monochromatic paper shapes, participants enter an attuned, somatic encounter with visual elements. The shapes become points of attention, shifting focus away from outcome and toward sensation: How does balance register? How does tension accumulate or release? How does coherence appear and destabilize?

In daily life, images arrive too quickly, pushing us toward recognition and preference. Shapes & Thresholds re-introduces the art of seeing—how response becomes possible when attention is held without certainty.

Working at the level of relation rather than representation, participants experience how coherence, intensity, and dissonance are generated—not imposed. Even pleasure, discomfort, and aversion become cues for tuning one’s own artistry.

Ultimately, the workshop offers a space to stay with edges—training the eye through the body, and the body through seeing.