One Hundred and Eleven Stories & Counting
One Hundred and Eleven Stories & Counting – there were about seventy-five attendees, around sixty sheets of recycled cotton rag paper, and over a dozen pens placed besides clips resting on a plinth. The installation displayed a carefully curated collection of Stories that featured anonymous, handwritten texts in over five languages. The stories are about times when they have loved, lost or learnt—or at least that's what I request when "would you share a story with me" is too broad.
I've been collecting these anonymous, handwritten stories since May of 2018.
Stories first began as a part of a performance-project commissioned by the Barbican Centre for their OpenFest—the original mechanism was an exchange: audience would write an offer and in return I would recite an offering from my own notebook.
