Tuesday, 27 October 2009

a peek at my sequential workings ....



So this is a new turn I have taken with my work ... I want people to find my boxes and pass them on to people who they feel need cheering up, or people the love, or even just keep them for themselves if they are having a bad day. I'm hoping to get a few responses .. I'm really excited to hear about where these gifts end up!

Next week .... balloons!

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Monday, 19 October 2009

The world (or uni at least) is ever so slightly a happier place

Oh yes, I received some post in my make-shift post box this morning ... neither note was referring to the question i asked (what would you do to make the world a happier place?) however .. quite frankly .... I don't care!


This week I will mainly be making .. you guessed it .. boxes ... however I will be making them in mass, like some crazy box making machine. I began today thinking, yes I will aim for 100 boxes by next monday ... I've ended today thinking, damn it's just not possible to make THAT many boxes in a week. I've concluded today thinking, I'll just make as many as I can!

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Saturday, 17 October 2009

More Boxes ....




.... because I've had nothing better to do the past couple of days!

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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

The Next Generation ...



So as promised ... this is what I have been working on this week ....

I have expanded the notes into small gift boxes, each box is filled with a Werthers Original and a note that simply says "This is just one girls attempt at making the world a happier place".

I wanted to get away from the idea of people emailing me with replies ... so I made a small post box, with each box I left a small piece of paper asking "how would you make the world a happier place?" and gave directions to said box. I am obviously hoping to get some replies ... I have only done this around my Uni as an experiment .. if I were to spread it outside of the campus it will take a lot more planning and I want to see how people respond around Uni before wasting valuable boxes.

Fingers crossed!

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Monday, 12 October 2009

So I went into uni today, and stumbled upon a note I put up about 2 weeks ago. For most of these 2 weeks the note remained untouched and quite possibly unseen, until I walked in today and noticed the most wonderful thing had happened .... people had written on it.

I love this! I love that people would reply to my note in such an appropriate manner! I never even thought about this as an option, if I myself stumbled across such a pleasant note I would take it down and stick it in my diary!

So here is a picture of this note which quite frankly ... made my day! (Sorry it's a bit dark)


I'm sure you'll also be pleased to know I have a whole new aspect to this idea now which I will soon post about .. it's all very exciting and i have no doubt this increasing amount of happiness will soon dominate the world! Keep your eyes peeled!

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Sunday, 11 October 2009


Hello,
Let me start by introducing myself, I am a Fine Art student at the University of Wales, Newport. I am in my final year and like most 3rd year Fine Art students I am trying to create a piece of art that will change the world.

My general idea is wanting to display a small piece of myself within my work by exploring how notes can affect people (I am a firm believer that everyone loves a good note), and in a quest for world happiness I set off writing note after note of happiness and well wishes and distributing them everywhere around Cardiff ... from cars and pub toilets to post boxes and the little button you press if you want to cross the road.

I love the idea (albeit perhaps slightly optimistic) that people will find these notes and feel, slightly joyful that someone would leave such a pleasant token of happiness and therefore continue to distribute this happiness to the people they come by that day, putting them in a good mood also, and continuing this everlasting cycle of happiness, perhaps even in note form.

On each note I left an email address (thenoteproject@gmail.com) in the hope that the receivers of said notes would contact me with thanks and praises ... and to my surprise I actually received a couple of emails (literally ... 2), perhaps Cardiff is not open to such wishes of well being .. however I am continuing to expand and develop this idea into something that will no doubt make the world a slightly happier place.
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