Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Not just a wall, but...













Sometimes ideas change a bit. Sometimes your plans go wrong. Sometimes you have to improvise.
Today was sometimes. We had no stones, no camera and no perfect place to place our wall. But then we found a rope. And a ladder. And a tailormade bridge. Instead of laying bricks we blocked the bridge with the rope and the ladder. It hadn´t to be a wall made of stone to fulfill its mission.
We had blocked the bridge for just one minute as the first people were coming. Older people who were quite confused asked around and expected us to clear the road. But since we didn´t really react, they made it their own way, climbed the rope with or without help, helped others to lift their bikes, interacted. For some of the people the obstacle seemed to be to high - they returned and chose another way. Some took their time to think about this problem. Some were maybe asking themselves if they did something forbidden by crossing this blocked bridge.

All in all we had many different reactions. We changed a very small part of the park and we confronted people with something unexpected. We showed that for some people a rope and a ladder is like a border, like an unspoken rule they are not willing to break. Others dared more, crossed this small border smiling.
It´s all a question of perspective which walls are too high and which are not.

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