Agnieszka Baczkowska
Gregor Hofbauer
TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE?
SEE
The sense of sight helps me recognize other people and learn about color, motion and distance.
Two heads with four eyes can watch more things going on around, it may help in case of danger and even help to survive. Four eyes would allow me to read more books, watch more films, get more visual impressions every day.
TASTE
Taste helps me to select and enjoy food. I need my tongue to taste, but I also use it to chew, swallow, sing, talk and kiss! Snakes even smell with their tongue!
Two tongues would mean more capacity for the taste of sweet ice cream, sour lemon, bitter cocoa and spicy pizza, more capacity for singing my favourite song, more capacity to talk!
SMELL
The sense of smell helps me to enjoy life and helps me learn about unsafe conditions. It brings me into harmony with nature, warns me of dangers and sharpens my awareness of other people, places and things. It helps me to respond to those I meet, can influence my mood, how long I stay in a room, who I talk to and who I want to see again. The nose allows me to make scents of what's going on in the world around me.
Two noses would mean smelling more parfums, more sweet apple pies and more fresh air.
HEAR
The sense of hearing helps me learn from others through communication. Sound can produce patterns. My ears help me to hear sounds and music, but also help me to keep my balance.
Four ears would mean double power for the act of perceiving sound.
FEEL
The sense of touch helps me learn about my world by feeling it and learning the size, texture and shape of things. I use my hands to pet a fluffy cat, I use my hands to give a dog a bath, I use my hands to feel the powdery snow.
Having more skin would mean more sensations by contact with my body or limbs, it would bring me double sensitive experiences.
If I had two heads I would enjoy being able to watch one situation in two perspectives.
I would love to sing one song in two voices at once! I would love to smell the scent of hey at the same time than the delicate odour of a bouquet of flowers. I would be fond of listening to the singing birds and to my favourite song at the same time. I couldn´t get enough of feeling the gentle touch of a beloved person on my hair and refreshing cold water on my skin in hot summer days at once!
BUT….
Wouldn´t all the negative things I see, taste, smell, hear and feel every day also duplicate? I would make double negative experiences and receive double negative impressions too. Sooner or later it would end up in sensory overload…
Even if all the sensual impressions would just be positive, I probably would suffer from being overloaded.
Two heads would be too much for me…
Katharina Huemer
Laya Gudenus & Thaddäus Stockert
