On my walk, there were multiple locations where I connected some of the larger ideas from class to the sites. However, towards the of the exercise, I found a message written in chalk that said: "You're Beautiful". It was pretty deocrative; the writer used blue chalk and also turned the dot on the "i" into a flower. This caught me off guard, for the message and action seemed pretty juvenile, which it probably was, as it reminded me a lot from elementary school. On the second and third ways of walking, I looked for the message every time to check on how faded it became. It turned out to be a rather significant part of the walking experience.
For my intervention, I thought of the message the writer was trying to send. I think that the comment itself, "You're Beautiful" is pretty artificial. Is there a reflection of inner beauty as compensation for any perceptive outside beauty? Is the statement meant to make the public feel "better" about themselves, or just the writer?
I placed a mirror, chair, and wrote the words "YOU ARE" as a response to this. The act of "being" and the recogonition of this fact, is personally more important to me than the artificialness I found the expression to be. The chair and mirror invites the public in to view themselves in the space. The awareness of just 'being' is something I think many of us take for granted.
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