fenrir-kin:This picture popped up on my ‘On this day’ on Facebook, and it’s i
fenrir-kin:This picture popped up on my ‘On this day’ on Facebook, and it’s incredibly important to me.I think this is the only performance I did while at uni that I’m really proud of.It’s called ‘The Kindness of Strangers’. I started the performance as you see here, in my underwear, covered in stickers. Each sticker had one of my secrets on it.Over a period of 4 hours, I invited people to take one of my secrets away, and leave one of their own secrets behind. Lots of people got involved, and by the end of the 4 hours I had barely any of my own secrets left.The reactions were really touching, too. Several people expressed relief that they could get their secret off their chest, leave it with someone else to look after, because even though it was out in plain sight no-one would know it was theirs. One girl came up to me and read one of my more depressing secrets and, after asking the rules, simply peeled it off me and said “I’m taking this one away because it’s sad. Now you can’t be sad any more, ha!” which made my chronically depressed self nearly cry at the level of kindness this stranger showed (I guess it worked, because I can’t remember the secret any more and I’m happier than I’ve ever been).What was also really nice was that, even though I was in my underwear, everyone was respectful. No-one touched except to put stickers on and take them off. No-one harassed or yelled horrible things. I was stood in my underwear for 4 hours in the busiest part of the performance centre, and all I heard was how brave I was.This was a really good piece for me. I really enjoyed it. But fuck, I was skinny. This is me coming out of my eating disorder, maybe 6 months into recovery? I can’t believe I thought I was fat. -- source link
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