What is it about?

Caroline and I spent the day walking around campus with very different ideas. Mine was a simple story, but Caroline's was much more abstract and personal. We started outside the caf and watched as people walked by looking concerned or ignoring us completely. Eventually a couple of her friends came up and after they realized that she couldn't talk, tried to decipher her story. Many of the reactionsshe got were "Oh, it's a phone number!" or "That's the United States!" or "This looks like a fun art project" and people seemed to be pleased with themselves that they were able to recognize these things, but after she told me what they represented I realized that no one was really looking at the crankies and trying to figure out their purpose. They just looked it one time through, laughed and then went on their day. Overall it was a great project for us to see people's reactions and learn from them, but I don't know if the St. Olaf community got the idea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkEuisaa08&feature=youtube_gdata_player