flight 18 kinda crashed for us

Hmmmmm. Kind of reminds me of a take-off (no pun intended, but it sounded better than rip-off) of "take off with us" & "air-otica" only not done so well.
Larry & I watched this morning & these things came to mind - IN TERMS OF THE OMFA PROJECT:

1) were there spectaters/audience?

2) if the answer to the above is yes, then were they participating? where were they?

3) thses folks look like actors/performers.which we are not.

We didn't relate it so much with facilitating the OMFA guests painting. I don't know, dude, we just weren't that into it.

A [Star]-Bridge

Here is a conceptual bridge between The Radiator Game and the OMFAGALAP2010 project. This is something that just ended in NYC on the 4th of this month, so check back on their website as there maybe more online later? I think it is a great comparison. The link was actually sent to me as an invitation to attend, from one of the performers (Ali), who I know from another project- glad it was. Please check it out and share your thoughts...wish I could have been there.




http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/ny1_living/115896/space-themed-performance-keeps-downtown-s-soul-at-zero-g?ap=1&Flash

http://www.flight18.net

Music From a Tree

I think this idea is definitely in line with the requirements for our current project.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY-ZoVMwGKM

The Radiator Game

An Action Potential Arts Experiment Original:
::: THE RADIATOR GAME :::

The Radiator Game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality.

Directed by Jeremiah D. Reeves

August 7, 2009 - August 9, 2009
Opening Reception Friday 6-8pm

J.E. Smith Gallery
413 Main Street
Evansville, IN 47708

For More Info:
actionpotentialarts@gmail.com
270.302.3974

Visit the Blog:
actionpotentialarts.blogspot.com

Sponsored By: J.E. Smith Gallery, Sticks & Stones, Casino Aztar, The Jungle Restaurant, Hacienda

Nice to know...

...that some people are on the same page. Checkout these images I found today. Don't they remind you of the film crew characters? Also The Tango/Valise handcuffed to the director?

Definitely "RAD"

http://wearcam.org/griefcase/

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The Radiator Game - (Show Card)

Action Potential Arts Experiment Presents:

THE RADIATOR GAME

The Radiator game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality.

Directed by Jeremiah D. Reeves

August 7, 2009 - August 9, 2009
Opening Reception Friday 6-8pm

J.E. Smith Gallery
413 Main Street
Evansville, IN 47708

For More info:
actionpotentialarts@gmail.com
270.302.3974

Visit the blog:
actionpotentialarts.blogspot.com

Relate/Releted/Relating...Really

I came across this quote from Roger Ebert that I immediately related directly to ::The Radiator Game::

"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert

I especially relate to this part - "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about..."

Of course, lately everything seems to be relating to ::The Radiator Game:: doesn't it?

sunshine through the rain

I was just outside in the rain, all the while the sun was shining. I didn't see any foxes holding their wedding processions, so I guess I'm safe.

On Absurdity and the Game c Dance

Deliverance...screams the game. Think of the 'rituals' happening within this film. The clash of cultures...the mirror - the repetition of lines, the lead and follow of the sound; an order in things...the mask...the displacement and creation of a subculture simultaneously hated as a species, but admired for their environment. Almost as if to highlight the absurdity of the term Hill-Billy. But doesn't in some way...the environment dictate the life that grows there? The seedy culture of nature...where manure nourishes freaks...not 'beautiful' flowers!

Also take note of the costumes...especially Burt Reynold's...looks like he just stepped out of the Apocalypse Now or some James Bond flick...is this our soldier 37 years ago, but considerably older? In the past, but older than now; conjugating the past and the future into the living present(verb)?

Dreams

Directed by: Akira Kurosawa

A must see film in relation to The Radiator Game. This is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Simply elegant and amazing. Look at this film...the characters are all there...and talk about vivarium (environment). I can't believe I never heard of this film before now. Luckily I randomly stumbled upon it. I am digging the "absurdity" also, that kind of dream world that is reality but isn't...the day-dream, the nightmare...the unconscious becoming conscience; a great reference for those "theatrical breaks" to our reality.

As the tagline on IMDB puts it:

"The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer. "

Boombox

***This goes out to Joe***

Friends of APAE: SUPERSTITION

“VERY SUPERSTITIOUS, WRITINGS ON THE WALL”

WHO: Directed by J.D. Szalla

WHAT: Superstition: An art party that is a documentary in the
making. The Gershwin Hotel will be the first location for a film documenting unrepresented artists. J.D. Szalla will direct this party as he attempts to work with raw process, dealing with contemporary American myth and ritual. The participating artists and the general public are invited to attend, participate or just observe. Szalla's process tries to work within the constraints of a new era of anxiety. The decadence, fear and loathing of the past decade has fallen. Superstition is the next generation of artists forging the new New York.

• Sponsored by The Local 269 (269 East Houston Street, NY, NY)

• Free Drinks from 8 to 10 pm

• $10 admission

WHERE: The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street (Between 5th and Madison Aves)
New York, NY 10016
gershwinhotel.com

WHEN: Tuesday, June 2nd 2009 @ 8pm

After party at The Local 269, 10:30 pm
(no cover charge)

MEDIA: For press inquiries please contact:
Sara Shae @ 609.760.4157 sarashae@gmail.com

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JD Szalla is a trusted friend of APAE. Please attend this event and tell your friends.

::Action Potential Arts Experiment::

::: The Radiator Game :::

The Jenga/Book Tower Sculptural Elements

Images: marco dessi "twisted radiator" et jenga blocks from APAE meeting

I have been thinking this over in my head...over et over...then a vision. The fallen jenga tower sculptural elements should be made of books - painted white. I think this may help to frame the "altar" et tie in our zoo map/landscaped feel.

What we need:
100 hardcover used books (guessing on that number) - collected from yard sales
1 can of white paint

***note: be sure not to paint the pages...just the covers.

Any thoughts??? By the way, does anyone have a music stand?

::Action Potential Arts Experiment::
::: The Radiator Game :::


Currently Seeking Creative Individuals

APAE, a local collection of artists, is currently seeking creative, driven individuals, IMMEDIATELY for current project. Character, tech and film crew positions remain open.

The Performance: August 7th – 9th, 2009 @ J. E. Smith Gallery, 413 Main Street, in Evansville, IN.

The play which takes the form of a game, where theater and reality are one, seeks to explore our relationship with time while presenting an image to the phrase "life is a game." The play, like a game, completes itself when all of the rules set out in the script have been played out to their final conclusion by the cast of characters.

The Radiator Game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality.


About APAE

APAE is an artist run collective/collaborative based in Owensboro, KY. APAE seeks to engage the local community with original, inspiring and thought provoking forms of contemporary art. APAE is free to join.

E-mail actionpotentialarts@gmail.com or call 270.302.3974 to schedule an audition or for more information.

Don’t forget to check out the blog: actionpotentialarts.blogspot.com

APAE: ~Between Art & Life

Into the Wilde

Having been profoundly affected by encountering the following statement today, I simply cannot pass up the opportunity to spread its influence…

Consider this for a moment:

“It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

Upon first reading, this may strike you as a rather used-up idea in reference to contemporary art. However, take another moment to contemplate the fact that the art you thought you were reflecting on is, in fact, REFLECTING BACK ON YOU.

As a video installation exhibit currently on display at Participant Inc. (Chelsea, NY), Dorian is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 19th Century novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Read the expanded description of the show if you wish, but my connection with it and The Radiator Game is that Dorian, both in this exhibit and Wilde’s novel, “exists as a contemporary superstar, a mirror to our own narcissism – desirable, unknowable, destroyed by vacant ambition”.

Suffice it to say, I don’t necessarily think that Sir Radiator needs to be destroyed (though this would serve as quite the sci-fi-esque ending), but I do think that at the same time people are desiring not to be him, due to the pain and mockery he is enduring, they should be finding him desirable, because he possesses something they do not – perhaps a key, perhaps an answer, perhaps the way out of this game!

All of the performers in Dorian (which I intend to see in person next week) are playing some version of themselves, ranging from – in reality – a gender-bending drag impresario or a renowned Theremin player, to the slightly more common, but nonetheless unique, media and performance artists. The fact that each character utilizes their own instrument also holds symbolic meaning.

Which brings me back to my original inspiration – we should all set incorporating a true piece of our identity into The Game as a top priority, because despite the fact that we will have spectators, we will ultimately serve as spectators to none other than ourselves.

Wonderful find...

There's a time for living
Time keeps on flying
Think you're loving baby
But all your doing is crying

[chorus]
Can you feel
Are those feelings real
Look at your game, girl
Look at your game, girl

What a mad delusion
Living in that confusion
Frustration and doubt
Can you ever live without the game

The sad, sad game
Mad game
Just to say loves' not enough
?? it can't be true
Oh, you can tell those lies
Baby but you're only fooling you

[chorus]

You feel
I those feelings ain't real
Then you better stop trying
Or you're gonna play crying
Stop trying

That's the game
Sad sad game
Mad game
Sad game

the poet?

tell me what you think about this for a character. here goes. the poet is a character provided with or responsible for writing prose and poetry relevant to the situation, life, death, etc... Resources for the writing could be assembled ahead and be included in the script. As far as his place in reality, the poet is the "inner voice" of the seeker or individual. he is the part of us that sees the beauty or the chaos in everyday life. he is the analyzer and the complicator, depending on the situation and environment in which he is placed. In the play he will speak whenever he feels necessary and must reflect the feelings that he is speaking about. anyway, tell me what you think so that we can further refine and define this character, if we choose to include him.

P.S. this was inspired by the open mic night. the constant stream of poetry from various individuals kind of put me in a state of torpor, punctuated by juicy adjectives that inspired colors and sounds, fireworks and flowers inside that little world of mine.

Playing games in the mall

A few pictures from our rendezvous in the mall, where we played boardgames.

Discussion: The Radiator Game

Transfering Ritual of Object No.2

A tango (or rhumba) is performed.







What is the object? What visual of tango/rhumba? (remember Kantor's lifeless/dragging tango, or Fellini's La Saraghina doing the rhumba?) How is the music created/integrated/devised? Dance=life=enjoyment of the game=love=cosmic law

****By the way, the movie "Last Tango in Paris" is a wonderful film...very relevant.

Objective of the Game #1

1. The understandable objective is to break a world record.

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Proposal Submitted to Guinness World Records for consideration
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Summary Claim Details
You may want to keep a copy of these details for your reference. If any information is incorrect, please use the Previous Button to go back and amend the details.
Claim Title:	Longest Continuous Theatre Performance
Country:	United States
City/Town/Village:	Owensboro, KY
Date of attempt:	06/ 05/ 2009
Record Details:	Action Potential Arts Experiment (APAE), an artist collaborative, will be performing "The Radiator Game" directed by Jeremiah D. Reeves on June 5th, 2009 in Owensboro, KY. The play which takes the form of a game, where theater and reality are one, seeks to explore our relationship with time while presenting an image to the phrase "life is a game." The play will take place in an alternative theater space, whose set is constructed as, and modeled after, a zoo vivarium. The play, like a game, completes itself when all of the rules set out in the script have been played out to their final conclusion by the cast of characters. The set will be under continuous video surveillance for the entire duration. It will be open to the public and free of charge. However the script will be for sale at the performance. All aspects of “The Radiator Game,” including: the characters, costumes, the setting, props, objective of game, rules for playing, rituals/moves and some lines spoken are accounted for in the script. Since the play is a game, which is played in real time in front of an audience, it has the potential of lasting for a long time. We are assuming the game will be performed anywhere between 12-72 hours straight; affording it a candidacy for some kind of world record. The script is an original written by APAE. It is self published in book form and will also be made available publicly on our blog (actionpotentialarts.blogspot.com). Since the event is being sponsored by a local magazine (VENT Magazine), there is a potential that it will be published in the following months (July 2009) issue. A short description of the piece: The Radiator Game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art, dreams and reality. APAE is an artist run collective/collaborative founded in 2009. It operates as a conceptual gallery curating exhibitions and performances for alternative and public spaces. APAE seeks to engage the local community with original, inspiring and thought provoking forms of contemporary art. They are currently seeking non-profit status. This theater piece bears a likeness to the work of Robert Wilson; a Brooklyn based theater director, who may hold a similar world record for the one proposed.
Adjudication Information requested
Media:	Local and national news and magazines. The event is being sponsored by VENT magazine and may include others.
This event is not in aid of Charity

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/default.aspx

Objective of the Game #2

2. The Seeker must regain his past (objects) and restore the order of things (nouns and verbs).



***thumb through this book....funny it was on my shelf at my feet. Asking myself the motivation of human endeavor "To..." Bam! there she was...Restore the Order of Things. I am now reading this book. Hopefully I can finish it before the performance. Read it when you need inspiration or have nothing to do. The preface is a good spot to start....especially where he is quoting Borges.

amazon book link
google book link

Quote for game

"I think that man now realizes that he is an accident, that he is a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason." - Francis Bacon

The Radiator

Here is a little reference for the radiator from the wonderful David Lynch

There is also an orange radiator cast in plastic from Rudolph Stingel, but I can't find an image of it.

Somewhere around there.

had to be posted. I like the envolvement of the camera and television as part of the piece, the giant light on a stick, and the machines. Particularly fond of the construction of the set and how it is exposed, practical and a simple solution. Egg-beater man hanging...scuba bike...fabulous. Check out the groups related videos also. Really neat.

The Game: Material for Ideas

This is one of my favorite films. It relates wonderfully. Everyone should watch it to glean ideas. La vita è bella 1997

Unrefined pieces of thought

I've been thinking about feeding, defecating etc...
How much does it cost to rent a port-a-potty? We could cover one up with foliage, or even make a cave-like structure to stick one in. Or we could create a cave or amass a large amount of foliage around the door leading to the bathroom already in the building, blocking it off from viewers.
I'm thinking about fishing, bags of food, zip lock bags, pop-tarts, chips, etc. out of a makeshift pond, or perhaps everyday for lunch or dinner, someone picking us something to eat that we each go into the cave seperately to enjoy, like our break/coffee area.
The hunter/poacher. I'd like to see that idea used somehow, maybe if the seeker gets close enough to those he's seeking, the poacher can come "shoot" them, I dunno, if you think of something let me know, or run with it, either way :-)
Piles of leaves...useful for something...
I've also got this idea stuck in my head of Alice, trying to enjoy tea with the Mad-Hatter, and hot the rules they've made are a bit off, (un-birthdays,MOVE DOWN MOVE DOWN, TIME TOO MOVE DOOOWN!)
Table manners/rules, maybe it starts off peacefully enough at the dinner table, the seeker and the sought are sitting together at the table having tea, or eating, peacefully, then something happens, maybe the seeker gets angry and scares off the sought, maybe something else happens, something chaotic like a car crashing into the table or something, basically showing how the seeker and sought became seperated. Maybe when all the sought are found they return to the table and simply finish their meal.
Or maybe this means I've lived in Owensboro for far too long. Thinking about eating out and such...
Damn it.
-nick

Rules for Play: (to generate a rule)

Since it has been said that Children are "brutally honest" - ask a child to create a rule...

Here is another reference for Rule Making:

Let the Design Begin: The Radiator Game

I have separated everything into these categories:

Setting (vivarium)

Characters/Players

Props

Objective of game

Rules for Play

Rituals

Text (words spoken)

Other

Please make all post from now on (in reference to The Radiator Game) with one of these as the title. I am taking notes on these and at the meeting we will solidify all of the notes into a design.

Note: This is the time to generate meaningful content, we will edit later, so be thorough and give examples and explanations. Be as creative as you like. Post pictures, video, text....ect.

The Tickling Trickle of Thoughts Wriggling Wryly Away!

...Spaaaartans! What is your profession!?...hmmm... I'm glad the TV is off... My ideas, specifically the ones I wrote down during our last meeting include... Eternity ends, Time... Space to think, remember, the past, family, friends, happy, sad, emotion is overwhelming. Sisyphus son of Aeolus, weeps, stares blankly back at the boulder, finally freed from his violent prodding, rests once again at the bottom of the eternal hill. Realization; He could've stopped stopped at any time. Perhaps it was hope that drove him, or faith. Hope it seemed was the worst of all evils loosed by Pandora, allowing man to prolong his torture and abandon reason... Sisyphus falls... the boulder with him, following as if linked by a chain beyond eternity... Another idea had it in the shower... Butthole surfers are pretty good, that song "avalanche" is euphoric to listen to after excercising... wish I hadn't forgotten Jane's name... Wonder if they'll even get any of this... Images... Moving pictures... black and white... an ape-like man begins coughing... zoom in... his eyes appear to be bulging out, he's gagging, clutching his throat, screams mingling with gurgles, suffocation, he falls to the floor, on his knees, dry heave, dry heave, PAPER CUT, PAPER CUT, BLOOD, VOMIT... ("maybe he's dead now, face down in his own blood, vomit... societies expectations, rules, morales, commandments, covered in copious amounts homo erectus's fluids, lay next to him, hair recedes, he seems more human now, almost child-like, innocence is restored, what cost?")
I can only imagine... the parents... feeding that to their children, did they cut it up? bite size? easier to swallow, as their parents did for them? How long was it in there?... hmmm Seinfeld is on... Still gotta continue my bio for Jeremiah... I guess... funny the bio seemed like a character I wrote for a long time ago... I love that kid... need coffee, maybe just acceptence and to learn how to spell... see you in hell.
-nick

New Project: The Radiator Game

The Radiator Game presents the collision of life and theatre within a vivarium; exposing the spectacle as a game in all its frivolity and seriousness, where ingenuity and absurdity are intensified and time stretched - a fusion of science and culture, psychology and art.

Images - To think about in relation to The Radiator Game

Here are a few images and links that were mentioned at the meeting:

Joseph Beuys - Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me

Book on Amazon

Matthew Barney - Cremaster Cycle @ Guggenheim

Alice Aycock - The New & Favorite Game of the Universe and the Golden Goose Egg

Michael Portnoy - Casino Ilinx

Palm Beach Zoo Map

A Carnie Smoking a Cigarette

APAE in Vent Magazine April 2009

Open publication - Free publishing - More vent

Check out our feature in this month's Vent Magazine pg 10-11.

A Centering Action: Rocket Ritual [spiral #1]

Segments from our First performance A Centering Action: Rocket Ritual on 3.28.09
Directed by: Jeremiah D. Reeves

Main objective: To draw an Archimedean Spiral using a model rocket

APAE Members: Jeremiah D. Reeves, Zion Reeves, Christophre Woods, Kelly Creed, Shane Camfield, Jane R. Fink, Larry Fink, Cynthia Freer

Others in Video:
Gary Emord-Netzley, Annabell & Duke

*Music is: Gorecki - Symphony #3, Op. 36, Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs - 3. Lento - Cantabile Semplice

Messenger-Inquirer SildeShow

Here's a link to the Messenger-Inquirer SlideShow.

Rocket Performance 3.28.09

The Rocket Performance is on 3.28.09. This event is free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to participate by joining in or to simply to watch. Please arrive no later than 6:30pm (spectators). Rain or Shine.

Rocket Performance: A Centering Ritual
Saturday March 28, 2009
12:00pm - 8:30pm
Ann's Farm
6871 State Route 405
Owensboro, KY 42303-9743

For Directions: http://www.mapquest.com/mq/3-zgExeH*1ec2tppqYsuie

Itinerary for Rocket Ritual

03.28.2009

12:00 – 12:14 Arrival

12:15 – 12:59 Set Up

1:00 – 2:29 Dress into Whites / Armor Check / Photo Check

2:30 – 3:59 Rehearsals / Finalize

4:00 – 5:59 Technical Time / Dinner Break [as time allows]

6:00 – 6:44 Preparatory

6:55 [Sunset]

6:45 – 7:44 Action [several times]

7:45 – 8:29 Teardown and Load

8:30 Depart

Rocket Action Biographies

Action Potential Arts Experiment

A Centering Action: Rocket Ritual

Jeremiah D. Reeves

Recently relocating from New York City to Owensboro, Jeremiah began Action Potential Arts Experiment as an extension of his collaborative work. Jeremiah has exhibited and performed through out New York, most recently at the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator’s Theater and the Whitney; where he was employed. He has taught as a printmaking assistant at Marymount Manhattan College and graduated from Pratt Institute where he received a BFA with honors. However, he says, his favorite thing to do, is spend time with his son; “he is brilliant…he gives me all his, I mean…my best ideas.”



Zion Reeves

When he is not busy with his homework and playing sports, Zion can be found drawing and painting. He also enjoys taking pictures with his digital camera, playing video games online, watching DVDs and listening to his MP3 player. His favorite games are Trouble and Poptropica. His aspirations include becoming a police officer, working in a doctor’s office and living in Africa.



Christophre Woods

Donating his time helping others as the volunteer Executive Director for the Owensboro AIDS Taskforce, Christophre has been actively counseling and educating about AIDS and Suicide prevention the local community for the past 5 years; lecturing at conferences, schools, churches, meetings. He believes that “we live in one community, a global community, and we must make it one fight against the things which threaten us all.” In his spare time, Christophre also: works doing water remediation for a restoration and remodeling company, serves as secretary-treasurer for the Hispanic Alliance of Greater Owensboro, and serves on two national committees. He enjoys singing in a choir.

Kelly Creed

As Barista at the locally owned, The Crème Coffee House, Kelly expresses herself through latte art and subscribes to the axiom: “big ideas, little cups.” Graduating from Brescia University in 2008 with an Integrated Studies in Psychology and Biology Bachelor’s degree, she hopes to return to school in the near future and work with animals. She is currently teaching herself Greek. In her spare time, Kelly can be found in the nearest cemetery snapping photos or at home watching zombie films with her three cats and sugar glider.



Shane Camfield

Showing his collage work and paintings locally in various solo and group shows, Shane hopes to expand his artistic oeuvre, testifying; “My hopes for APAE are that as a group, we can inspire, entrance and otherwise interest people in Owensboro, possibly pushing the envelope of what is accepted as art.” Shane posses a BA in English and Studio Art from Brescia University and in the near future, he plans to publish his poetry and write a novel.


Jane R. Fink

Paper artist and Owensboro native, Jane’s been cutting and pasting paper since receiving her first pair of scissors at age 3. She works in mixed media and has an eclectic array of ongoing projects. Jane studied art at Murray State University and is Creative Services Manager at the Daviess County Public Library. She’s a member of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Asheville BookWorks, and The NY Book Arts Center. When not cutting and pasting, she enjoys music, Indie Films, and traveling to see art and hear music.



Larry Fink

Larry was born in Belleville, NJ, but has made Kentucky his home after graduating with a BFA from Murray State University. After moving to Owensboro, Larry became an art teacher, instructing students at the 9-10 Center, Owensboro High School, and Foust Elementary School. For the past 25 years he has been working as a newspaper artist at the Messenger-Inquirer and the Evansville Courier & Press.


Cynthia Freer

Cynthia was born and raised in Kentucky. She enjoys the art of living; learning to love with no restraints and the privilege of creating little bright glimpses of colorful beauty. Cynthia thinks that it's one thing to see a need and talk about a solution, but another thing to be part of that answer. “Potential will lay dormant unless a catalyst sets it into action.” Cynthia hopes that through this experiment, our community can learn to see the beauty in the mundane and that it will open eyes in a positive light.
She also hopes that it can inspire humor and a greater sense of self-awareness opening space for change.