In-Action

 

In-Action was a billboard project that I did in Chicago's West Loop.It was visible from the street and the elevated commuter train.

The text on the billboards described actions I observed passengers taking on the train during rush hour. The text in the background listed a range of emotional states that I imagined the could have motivated the passenger to do what I observed them doing. I recognized that as I was doing this six week process, I was using 'interpretation' to give me a sense of being in control of the uncertain and unpredictable ways people around me were acting and reacting (and the way interpretation can compound itself until all you have is 'noise'). The last billboard turned my observations back on myself, publicly acknowledging, "I will never know".