Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nashville, TN/What was the happiest thing you've done this week?


© Jasmin Chang 2009

Answer: I bought a new washer and dryer set for my wife. The ones we had were from the little league years, so we're trading those out and remodeling.
Question: Where are you going to travel to when the first hurricane forms?



What is the walking talk?

I love the unexpected conversations you stumble upon as you go along daily life. I'm that person who makes eye contact for just a little too long at the grocery store, crossing the street etc. Sometimes it ends in a smile exchanged, other times...awkwardly and every so often, there is that snippet of conversation that makes my day. The basic parts of a conversation are questions and answers. I wanted to facilitate a conversation between people who may not be in the same place and may never actually meet each other. So I started with the basics. I began the conversation by asking someone I met, someone that captures my attention, one question. Once the person answered my question, I asked them for a new question for me to ask the next person I approach. I will document each of these conversations by taking a photo of each person. I want to go from person to person, creating a link of questions and answers. In this way, I hope to create a guided invisible conversation between portraits, a conversation of questions and answers that I am not directly involved in, but that I make possible.

So I began by asking, "What was the happiest thing you did this week?"