CREEPER STATUS!

I really wanted to step out of my comfort zone for this project, so in order to follow someone I didn't know I picked a place that I'm not very familiar with, Hackensack. While I was there I saw a girl and her (boyfriend?) walking around. She looked pretty young and I managed to take these pictures using my cell phone, which at times was really kinda difficult because I kept trying to get a frontal view and I would hold my phone by my side and attempt the shot without a flash. I followed both of them into a pizzeria at one point and ate there on the opposite side of the room, I managed to get a shot of them eating, while I was pretending to "look for service" by waving my phone around in their direction from where i was sitting. This project was scary at first, but I'm glad I did it, I found it to be a lot of fun.

Continuation of Put Something Here

For the continuation of the "put something here project" i photo copied the picture I had used previously, and went to the neighborhood and job my brother used to be at all the time. After walking around the mall, i posted them in different places right in plain view. I'm going to go back and photograph whether or not people have taken them down and post them at a later date.

Put Something Here

For "Put Something Here" i chose to use a picture of my oldest brother who passed away in 2003. After talking with one of my managers i convinced him to let me place it on one of the tables at my restaurant for the night and let people eat next to it. This sparked questions amongst people dining such as who is this? and why is this here? Unfortunately i couldn't convince my manager to let me photograph any customers next to it for "legal purposes" but all in all i think this was successful in having a personal connection with me as well as creating a a curiosity amongst the guests.

Questions from Reading - Krzysztof Wodiczko

1.) As strangers, do we all consider one another to be that different? or does our "strangeness" or personal experiences shared, unify us as a whole?

2.) Do you think if more issues and experiences were shared through design (public art) as a way to deconstruct life, we could reach out to our fellow "strangers" and connect with them on a personal level?

3.) Do you think our public artwork could be viewed by those "aliens in transit" and give them more information about a difficult experience more so than any text book could?

Human Interaction

My friend Tim, My boyfriend Chris and I decided to spend our Wednesday building a snow fort. This took more than 3 hours to do, but we were all interacting with one another and here are some pictures from that day: