shhing people

Next step...involving the people...I went round shhing people with the sign, really quite fun. But given that it's a sound piece...it may have made sense to record the sound, but ah well, next time.

shh goes walkies

I tried taking the sign out and taking photos of it in different environments, leaving it in places and sometimes sitting far away with a camera recording people's reactions, sadly most people ignored it, but some of the photos are quite interesting. It's not quite working to it's full potential though.

SHH.

Wanting to take the humour and "shh." further out in to the public domain to get the masses involved, I created a "SHH." sign (below).

sound paintings

 Inspired by John Baldessari's word paintings, I wanted to take his idea further in to the sound realm and created these sound paintings (above). Using onomatopoeic words the idea was that the viewer reads through them, hearing each of the sounds in their heads, then the "SHH." creates a weird pause, which I feel adds a slight humour to the piece too. I tried singling out the "SHH." (below), the initial idea being to take it around places and see how people reacted, but then given that it's on a canvas, I thought people might just put it down to being a weird art thing and dismiss it, so some re thinking is it order.