Inspired by Christo and Wodiczko

Letting the community tell it's story was an important component of this project. I wanted to use Christo's idea also of looking at a public space in a new way, and while some may not choose to see Manson Park in Shrewsbury, NJ any differently becauses of my blank tablet implanted there, others may perhaps see it as an inviting place to share openly one's feelings while enjoying a nice day at the park. This video is of the first of 4 tablets I planted around my neighborhoods and used Wodiczko's idea of allowing others to speak for themselves to be the basis for my leaving the papers all around not for me to write on and share my opinions but for others to speak out. On this paper I wrote somethings to start the conversation and left it up to others to speak for themselves if they so felot inspired to do so.

I should also state that unlike Wodiczko's works, I do not put marginalized peoples' voices out there to be heard but rather let anyone who happens to stop by speak their mind. This is in one sense advantageous b/c no one actually has to go into the 7-11 for example, one of the other sites where I put one of my tablets, in order to buy something and then see the sign. On the other hand, the amount of people I've seen who are of minority groups, or are impoverished, or are not residents of the Little Silver, Shrewsbury, and Red Bank areas that have happened by the 7-11 or Manson Park even, is few and far between. Therefore I can critique my own project in the aspect that it doesn't necessarily bring forth a marginalized voice, but does at least allow for anyone who comes by to exercise their right to free speech, which is more akin to Wodiczko than anything else in this project I think.