Waves

This room is all about streams of consciousness. Participants come into the room and write poetry on napkins. They will attach the napkins onto one of the strings that extend from one side of the wall to another. The strings are hung in a wave shape. So, in the end, there will be “waves” of napkins with poetry written on them exhibited.

Napkins pegged along strings strung in a wave across the room, lit by candles and fairy lights.

Participants can

1) write their incidental thoughts at the moment unprompted;

2) write a response to the various prompts pasted on the front wall.

Three visitors writing at a low table by candlelight, napkins and pens spread in front of them.

move us around!

A close view of napkins hanging from a string, each covered in handwriting.

Prompts pasted across the front wall of the poetry room.

The waves of strung napkins seen along the length of the room.

move us around!

A single napkin hanging from its string, a poem written across it.

Stream-of-consciousnessreflects the nature of our thought processes.We usually let those thoughts pass.As a result, many potentially powerful ideas are lost.When we encode our thoughts onto a piece of paper,the stream of consciousness finds its form.

Materials - Napkins, pens and markers (lots of them!), (invisible) strings, candles, fairy lights.

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