final project results

This project was a little more stressful than other projects because it depended wholly on the support and interaction of my peers. If no one chose to interact that at the end of the project I would have a white sheet of paper, and no evidence of the piece. 

One of the biggest challenges I feared was getting a first reaction. I believed that in the same way people do not like to cross a line that they would also be wary of "dirtying" something so clean as a blank white sheet of paper. To combat this I placed the first photo (girl in bottom left) to start a response and also give other students an image to 'work off of'. This worked very well and the following images are the results of the project, taken in increments of two hours from 5pm to 1am on Monday December 15th. 

The ending result was more than I could have hoped for, however it was also very surprising how some people choice to interact with the piece. I was surprised how many people were comfortable with breaking the frame of the piece, as this can be counter-intuitive. Additionally I was interested in how people placed the images. Many people would take a few pictures and post them together, while others would select just one image and keep it surrounded by white space. There seemed to be a large divide between people interacting with their peers work and people just placing their own images.

I would have liked to see the white of the board more covered to give it more of a 'collage' feel, but I didn't want to prompt people to participate and I also didn't want to involve myself more than I already had. By starting the project I already put the project on a certain trajectory. For example, perhaps because I didn't break the frame with my first image others felt prompted to break the frame. I really wanted this project to be a campus collage, and I felt that if I started and finished the project that I would have just molded it into the image that I wanted, instead of allowing it to be a representation of how students were feeling.