Found Aloud

the project

Found Aloud was inspired by an exercise given by my college professor in a creative writing class. He told us to go out and listen to things we heard people say, write them down and then bring them back to class. 

I sat in coffee shops listening to conversations. I was hooked when I overheard a woman telling her friend "he put cigarettes on his skin for me".

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Our minds cannot help but fill in a story when we hear words out of context. We must create context, story, connections to make sense of language. As listeners we strive to connect to the words in front of us, and around us. Each word aligns with a viewer uniquely. 

I’m transfixed by what we do when pieces are taken out of a larger context: words from a conversation, cutouts from a magazine — even the moments we meet are only minutes within a lifetime. Significance is iterative, and taking things out of their original context can be a catalyst for regeneration.