Topics:<\/b> Bondage; Confession; Culture; Depravity; Guilt; Human Condition; Regret; Shame; Sin; Vices<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> 2 Chronicles 7:14; Ezra 10:1\u201316; Proverbs 28:13; Matthew 7:6; James 5:16; 1 John 1:9<\/p>\n
In 2006, two performing artists named Laura Barnett and Sandra Spannan created an exhibit in a storefront in Manhattan that allowed passersby to alleviate their guilt.<\/p>\n
The two women dressed as nineteenth-century washerwomen and sat in the storefront. One underlined the words on the glass\u2014\u201cAir your dirty laundry. 100 percent confidential. Anonymous. Free.\u201d Onlookers were encouraged to write their deepest secrets on pieces of paper. The washerwomen then collected the confessions and displayed them in the window for all to see.<\/p>\n
The sins and secrets ranged from slightly humorous to sordid:<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cThe hermit crab was still alive when I threw it down the trash shoot [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cI want to see SUVs explode. Those people are so selfish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cMy girlfriend and I both think Osama Bin Laden has a sweet-looking face.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cI make fun of this one friend behind her back all the time. She just enrages me! But I get freaked out when I think of what she might say about me. I worry this means we\u2019re not really friends. Human relationships are infinitely confusing!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cI haven\u2019t slept with my husband in a year, and I am about to start an affair with _____ _____.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cI haven\u2019t yet visited my dead parents\u2019 grave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cI am dating a married man and getting financial compensation in exchange for the guilt. I\u2019m twenty-five, and he\u2019s a millionaire. It pays to be young.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u201cNew York makes me feel lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barnett said the onlookers are often overwhelmed by the weight of others\u2019 sins: \u201cWe go there, and the window is empty, and we\u2019re wearing all white. At the end, the window is full. It\u2019s exhausting. Some of those things are really, really sad. And afterward I need to take a bath.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Kathryn Shattuck, \u201cArtists Display Confessions of Passersby on a 44th Street Storefront,\u201d The New York Times<\/i> (May 6, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Bondage; Confession; Culture; Depravity; Guilt; Human Condition; Regret; Shame; Sin; Vices References: 2 Chronicles 7:14; Ezra 10:1\u201316; Proverbs 28:13; Matthew 7:6; James 5:16; 1 John 1:9 In 2006, two performing artists named Laura Barnett and Sandra Spannan created an exhibit in a storefront in Manhattan that allowed passersby to alleviate their guilt. The two … Continue reading “GOING
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