Wonderful, Patricia! Brave work. Please keep it up. IMHO, these entries are getting better and better, that is, more and more interesting, both the photos and your writing.
Your observations about people who approach or ignore you ring true for me. I've noticed when making public art (eg. painting street murals) with climate movement activists, only a few will stop to look and fewer still will be curious enough to engage in conversation. And this is in response to images that are colorful, a vision of a better world, joyful, inviting! (Not expressing a dark story like The Cape.) If even one or two or three people stop to talk or say something encouraging, it lifts my spirits, my hope, my belief in the human heart.
I wonder if you plan at some point to add a way for people to stop , think about and express their response, in writing? or by talking to someone you've assigned the role of listener? What you wrote here about looking vs. seeing made me remember this art piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/nyregion/04about.html
Thank you Anita, for your thoughtful response. As you can see by all of my posts, I have had a wide range of responses. I love the article about Marina Abramovic and her meditation piece. She has inspired and influenced my work for quite some time. I will consider your ideas on having passersby express their thoughts... more to think about.
Wonderful, Patricia! Brave work. Please keep it up. IMHO, these entries are getting better and better, that is, more and more interesting, both the photos and your writing.
Your observations about people who approach or ignore you ring true for me. I've noticed when making public art (eg. painting street murals) with climate movement activists, only a few will stop to look and fewer still will be curious enough to engage in conversation. And this is in response to images that are colorful, a vision of a better world, joyful, inviting! (Not expressing a dark story like The Cape.) If even one or two or three people stop to talk or say something encouraging, it lifts my spirits, my hope, my belief in the human heart.
I wonder if you plan at some point to add a way for people to stop , think about and express their response, in writing? or by talking to someone you've assigned the role of listener? What you wrote here about looking vs. seeing made me remember this art piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/nyregion/04about.html
Thank you Anita, for your thoughtful response. As you can see by all of my posts, I have had a wide range of responses. I love the article about Marina Abramovic and her meditation piece. She has inspired and influenced my work for quite some time. I will consider your ideas on having passersby express their thoughts... more to think about.
Patricia--Such beautiful writing about such a powerful story! I was very moved.
Thank you Jean...♥︎