This is the card I received in response to the first envelope. It was a huge disappointment.
The card will will not be used as the 'source' card for the rest of the project. Instead I will distribute more envelopes and wait until I receive a more suitable response. It could be argued that this defeats the whole idea of the project being 'organic' - if at all possible I would have liked to use the first card. However, in my message I asked for the card to be 'thought-provoking, something that will draw an emotional response from people' and I asked for it to 'give people the opportunity to express opinions or feelings which they would normally keep to themselves'. I am not using this card on the grounds that I do not feel it satisfies these requests. I also think that while people may follow the instructions and the results may be interesting, it is unlikely to lead to people actually recording their responses in the form of a card, making the project invisible.
My message will be altered in future envelopes to describe my wishes more explicity, as in some ways I can see how my wording may have led to confusion over what was required.
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i thought it was good!! what were you expecting?!
ReplyDeleteSomething deep and meaningful like "Don't you just sometimes want to die"?
ReplyDeleteHow very imaginative - and I wouldn't really want to see the responses to that!