This is my first blog in a year. So much has changed, from the scenery, smells, longings and mostly my outlook in this wild world.
I have been working in similar patterns, involving art and the public voice, in different segments of my life. Not until my junior year at the University of New Hampshire have I regained interest in this community driven task.
I want to see more public art. I want to provide unique people and the supressed bathroom wall graffiti artists with an anonymous outlet...
I have been so overwhelemed with the radical notions of power and the abundance of my own ideas that my voice has been muttled. Having too many tangents will not turn an ear. So after weeding through all of the "exploratory" questions I am directing towards a survey for the 15,000 possible participants that attend UNH, I have taken a step back to look at the broader picture.
If we as humans are always striving towards this goal, whatever that may be, Nirvana, self-actualization, heroin, or a new day, if my intentions are good, why is it so difficult to get there?
So I am asking these questions to understand if this is just my own curiousity, that the walls at UNH are too "bland," If there is a sense of a security while being anonymous, and if there is a louder message to be shown.
I have been shut down by the Library Administration to display my project because they do not promote individual projects at the university. I thought this was funny because the project will mean absolutely nothing without the anonymous voice of the people. I was sincerely upset about this at first because of the various reasons why the libary is the most appropiate place for such an interactive project. Mainly because it is a communal high traffic area that encompasses and encourages students of all kinds towards this greater goal. It is also a place that potentially networks and connects people. After the ethnographic methods class and a chat with the professor, I let go of the denial a smidge and focused on breaking in this first step. Winter always turns to spring, so if I let myself channel one project thoroughly without thinking twice, the better I can face the next challenge head on.
Where would like to see a mural in your community?
- paiged15
- exeter, new hampshire, United States
- To diffuse what I have learned about food security, economic security, environmental conservation and social equity to inquisitive and various demographics, would allow me to reciprocate a greater asset of critical and situational reasoning. I feel confident in my ability to think critically and create an outlet for further communicating what sustains the individual in a way that would only become better with experience immersed within public initiatives for food empowerment.
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