I asked people to write me a secret— any secret— and then erase it…
My idea for this website was to have a wall of secrets, almost like the wall of a bathroom stall where people say things they perhaps wouldn’t say without the guarantee of anonymity? And yet, their handwriting keeps a piece of them there forever…
When you hover over a secret on the website, it shows how the person wrote it. It’s an interesting study to see where people may pause to think, or hesitate before continuing.
I also asked the participants to erase their secret after writing it. I feel it’s cathartic to let a thought out into the world and then erase it from existence.
I’ll be honest that though I really like this idea and concept, the execution is all but complete. I’ve been having a really hard time keeping up with my life and school right now, and I started this much later than I’d like to admit. My original proposal is completely different as well, and I never got the chance to talk to Nica and Golan about my change of plans (which I so totally apologize for… my lack of communication the past couple of weeks has been completely on me). I want the chance to flesh out this project more, get more secrets, fix up the website, and make this project more than just the little demo it is now.
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The past couple of weeks, I have been working on a friend’s passion project, which was to make a mini karaoke box. My portion of the project was to make a receipt printer print a little receipt of the user’s session once it was complete, with the date and time they visited, the song they chose, a random lyric from the song, and a photo of them singing!
The installation will be up and running by the night of 12/06, so stop by Purnell if you’d like!
