Intrusions

Interruption.
And then Forkergirl said
every interaction changes you
Sean Penn

In the middle of our work on whatever this project was going to be, Forkergirl went and threw Sean Penn into the mix.

And then Forkergirl said
at least I didn't say
Charlie Sheen

but of course Forkergirl knew she had said Charlie Sheen too and both celebrities were now imprinted on our project. I felt like we had pulled over for gas on our road trip and had our car keyed. HAHAHAHAHA. Forkergirl frolicked around the room a little too smug about what she had done. The weekend before I had gone home and seen Mr. Sheen on the television. My Dad was quite interested in the story. Then I knew Mr. Sheen was exactly what we did not want in our project. The culture of celebrity like the culture of Facebook is centered around the identity of individuals. We want art where no one person has too much control.

Our website will only allow posters to write something between the size of a text and a tweet: 150 characters at a time. Then the post will have to be approved by multiple people. Then someone else will post. Posters will keep going back and forth until they have created something with no one name or voice dominating the project. Someone can claim the work is finished, but others will have to approve that claim as well. We don't want a world where "By: Charlie Sheen" comes before the ART or where Jessica Suzanne Stokes comes before every post. We want to inspire collaboration centered around what is being made not who is making it.