About MIND MIND

Things to learn:

The sound should have been louder. I should also have chosen a place that would naturally have stopped people for few seconds. Now the sound seemed to come about two seconds too late. And even that was too much: people had passed by the place already. Maybe a good idea would have been to place the loudspeakers to the other side of the door, inside the library. There was a little, separate space for bringing back books and maybe it wouldn’t have disturbed the customers too much. But library is anyway a library and somehow the silence  there seems “holy”  - I don’t think they would have allowed me to do it there. The toilet might have been a good place as well.

It would have been better if the motion detector reacted to movement also a bit further away. Now it was discriminating: asking only tall people to mind their thoughts.

Things to be happy about:

*Glad about knowing more about the technical side now.

*Happy with the sound, it’s ”message”.

*Glad to have gained more experience in dealing with city’s ”authorities”.

*Happy about how my ideas were listened to in Espoon kulttuurikeskus

*Happy that nothing got stolen or broken.

*When there were less people, it worked nicely.

*Grateful to Eikka, who was very helpful in putting up the work.

*Thanks to Andy for a course that raised many thoughts about art’s possibilities