Performance
Kiss It Goodbye

I had the opportunity to sit and spend some time talking with strangers. We discussed their own personal concerns. Some were a current matter of frustration, a memory they may have wanted to leave behind or a secret they wanted to tell. Once our conversation was over, I provided them with the tools necessary to write it down, kiss it goodbye and have it shredded. I suggested they consider the event as a psychological adventure, an opportunity to participate in something unexpected. As we met each other half way, and began a private conversation in a public space, we had to consider the anxieties of our fellow travelers. Through the act of unburdening themselves, an opportunity for some serious healing was able to occur.

[photographs by Michael David Murphy]