Erin Wakeland
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What are you Looking at?
The book, What are you Looking at? details four social experiments completed this year: mending and returning red solo cups from a fraternity’s yard, hanging a banner hand stitched with “You Have Everything You Need” in places of commerce, placing postcards in public places with a prompt to be returned to me, and en plein air painting in the Meijer Superstore. Each experiment is framed in essay form as I use interviews, photos, diaristic writing, and other documentation to reflect on my relationship to the topics at hand. I explore the relationships between worthiness, ordinariness, and what happens to people’s attention in a capitalist system through interventions in everyday happenings.
Cover for book, “What are you Looking at?”
Chapter “Returning Red Solo” details the experiment in which I mended and returned red solo cups I found in the yard of the Theta Chi Fraternity house.
Chapter “You Have Everything You Need” contains the project in which I placed a hand-stitched banner with the phrase “You Have Everything You Need” in public places.
Chapter “The Postcard Experiment” details the experiment in which I placed postcards in public with a prompt to be answered and mailed to me.
Chapter “Artist-in-Residence” is about my time as an artist-in-residence painting at the Meijer Superstore.
The book “What are you Looking at?”.