What Roey Did in Indianapolis While Everyone Else Was in Class

Since I wasn't in class on Thursday to present my project, here's a quick summary of what I did:

Oh, first, here's why I was there........
I went to Indianapolis for the National Alpha Chi Convention. This was RWU's first year attending the conference. My friend Heather and I both did student presentations, poster workshops, and attended other students' presentations. Notice me at my nerdiest above ^^


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For the installation project, I was heavily influenced by the article we read, about the group that created secret hideouts and hide stuff in orphan spaces around the museum they were working in. I decided to use my own artwork--quotes from my color idioms series and a few other things, and stick them in seemingly random places around Indianapolis in both public and private spaces. If someone found one of my notes or artworks, my hope is that they would question the space around them more---start to question where they might find other random things, or really just notice more about the place the inhabit or frequent. Say the viewer found a note in a tree, would they start noticing all the trees they pass now on their way to work, or wherever they are headed? That was my initial goal of this project. Other things that interested me were getting people to respond, so I tried to put funny or thought provoking things on notes and I wrote my email address on EVERYTHING. If I get even one response, I'll be happy. (hopefully someone found one somewhere with my email address on it and decided to try contacting me) I also brought my letter writing materials for the St. Jude fundraiser with me, and ended up integrating that as well.


Here are some of the places I hid things: ( I felt uncomfortable taking pictures in restaurants and bathrooms, so most of the pictures here are of locations I chose outside)


These tire sculptures are part of a temporary exhibit around Indianapolis, so I stuck a note in every one I found. I found three of them, I'm not sure how many there were.


Around the hotel and restaurants I ate in, I left materials to support St. Jude Children's Hospital in magazine racks and newspaper stacks. I wrote instructions on how to address the letters and wrote my email at the bottom, which said, "email for a special thank you for supporting this great cause" I decided to integrate my letter writing materials, because I wanted to bring parts of Rhode Island to Indianapolis, and use things I was doing back home to introduce in this never before visited place. I thought it would be interesting because I also used my letters for St. Jude's for a project in Mixed Media.

This was one of two notes still left untouched by the time I left the hotel on Saturday. It is stuck beneath the sign in front of the elevators.
This one was much more visible than a lot of them and was probably ripped down by a cleaning person, but one can hope.

This is one of the lines I wrote on the notes. For a series of text works I'm doing, I have phrases that go with the color idioms Seeing Red, Feeling Blue, etc. I wrote "Actually bitch, I am an artist" and "We are all question marks, do you know the answer?" on a lot of the notes, because it has personal significance, and I thought it might get a reaction out of the note finder.


Originally, I wanted to see how far the viewer would go to find art, or follow the notes, like a treasure hunt, but I was thinking it might be cool to try to create some connection or link between Indie and Bristol by doing the same thing in Bristol (maybe with the photo treasure hunt) that has images of my trip or items from Indianapolis.