Confessions (Independent Research)

This is a body of work which I found on the internet about confessions of people that are in Vegas either visiting of work there, often the confessions are something that people wouldn’t normally share, the idea of the work was to turn the gallery into a place where people contemplate anonymity, vulnerability trust and understanding, the idea behind the work was based on Shinto Shrines and other religious places where secretes could be shared, with this idea in mind the artist created a place where people could write and submit their confessions on wooden plaques in voting types booths, the artist then hung them on the gallery walls over the course of the work so that they ended up building up over time much like that of Shinto shrine prayer walls, then also painted select responses on large canvases.

I particularly like this work just because of the way the information is gathered and displayed, the wooded plaques have a really simple look to them, but also makes it look somewhat more precious because of the fact that thin wood can be fragile. And also the fact that it’s the individual’s hand writing, making it more personal to them and giving the viewer a small idea of who the person was, as well as these I like the narrative be hide the work the idea of gathering secrets, or confessions, giving people a glimpse into what other people are doing and thinking.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2uMfwQ/:My5yr!4o:mVNShKOo/candychang.com/confessions/