crush/repeat

My friend Sarah Brown put a call out for folks to do something for thirty days and make a piece based on the experience for the "Crush/repeat Fun-A-Day showcase" in Seattle, WA on April 12, 2014. I chose to take a 30 minute walk and write a sentence and/or take a picture of what I saw. I made the words and pictures into postcards (using a surprisingly cool template from Microsoft Word). Here is what they said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the back side of every postcard I put my return address and invited visitors to the "Crush/repeat" showcase to take one, take a walk, make a picture, and tell me what they see. I'm looking forward to seeing what, if anything, comes back in return.

I like art shows that are interactive. There was a neat show recently at Intersection for the Arts called "Why can't the First Part of the Second Party be the Second Part of the First Party?" by Bernie Lubell, which involved a room-sized wooden mechanism by which people could either pedal a cycle or walk on a treadmill to make gears turn that advanced a scroll of paper and made a line drawn with a golfing pencil get longer, among other things. It was neat seeing people interacting with the piece and either tentatively observing or stepping up and interacting with it to make it go and see what would happen as a result. Without the audience's participation, there was nothing to watch. In this age of voyeuristic enterprise (including blog-reading, ha!), it is refreshing to be challenged to really inhabit a space rather than just passing through it unchanged.