Free Catharsis
Back in '05, an artist named Frank Warren decided to do an installation made of secrets. He mailed out 3000 postcards, inviting people to send a secret back on a postcard of their own. But secrets kept coming in long after the installation ended. So Frank began a second installation, this time online.Today, Frank gets 100-200 postcards a day, each bearing a secret from a stranger. He picks about 20 of them to post at PostSecret each Sunday. They are hopeful, tragic, hilarious, horrifying, and brave. Each one suggests a story that is unique, yet familiar. There is no archive; secrets are online for one week only, but during that week, about one million visitors will view them.
PostSecret is not G-rated. Many of the secrets are raw, dark, shocking, or heartbreaking. But to read them is to understand what it means to be human.
posted by Lindsey at 8:43 PM
1 Comments:
yes, you learn something about humanity, and part of that is humanity's magnetic draw to cliche. A lot of the secrets, although tragic perhaps and very real for the author, are still boring because they lack originality. Instead, they often come across as someone who knows they are telling a juicy secret. And because it's juicy, they are anonymously proud of their cliche secret.
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