It’s Thursday 27th November and we as a class have left the comfort of our school grounds and are on a pursuit to Whitehorse. This is in aid of what can only be described as a cross between performance art and a social experiment. "What are you thinking?" A question that echoed throughout every group to the public. Stationed along Whitehorse, my group including Tosin and Eloise, we were directed to ask individuals surrounding the petrol station what they were thinking.
In order to document the people and their responses, we asked them if they could write their thoughts down and hold it up as we photographed them. This is an experiment also conducted by the artist Gillian Wearing, who we were working in the style of.
I really enjoyed this experiment and had no queries with going up to people. I found it worked best to ask individuals if they had time to spare, why I was doing it and to blurt out the question, giving them no time to come up with a though-out response.
People were keen to interact and although we got less exciting answers like "I'm tired" or "I'm cold." We got equally interesting and random thoughts like "I like running for buses" and "Why are you so beautiful?" Proving when you address people politely and with respectfully they can always spare a minute
In order to document the people and their responses, we asked them if they could write their thoughts down and hold it up as we photographed them. This is an experiment also conducted by the artist Gillian Wearing, who we were working in the style of.
I really enjoyed this experiment and had no queries with going up to people. I found it worked best to ask individuals if they had time to spare, why I was doing it and to blurt out the question, giving them no time to come up with a though-out response.
People were keen to interact and although we got less exciting answers like "I'm tired" or "I'm cold." We got equally interesting and random thoughts like "I like running for buses" and "Why are you so beautiful?" Proving when you address people politely and with respectfully they can always spare a minute
Biannca Nugent- Visual Arts and Design BTEC student
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