It’s not about complaining if someone complains about something and someone else can identify with that complaint, that’s great. “It’s not just about Hillary and it’s not just about Trump, it’s about stress relief,” he says. It’s hard to not channel that fire at whoever will listen, and since I was there listening, a lot of people would yell at me, get really upset.” But he found the experience productive, and he encouraged those who were upset to start conversations, to read other peoples’ responses, and to confront their own emotions by expressing them on paper. How did Matthew handle facing those types of responses? “A lot of people were really angry – just angry. “Plus it gave everyone an opportunity to connect with their community.”The sticky notes as a whole irrefutably record not just thoughts, but strong emotions. “People could spontaneously participate in art therapy in a quick way.” This notion of naming emotions as a therapeutic action spoke to him: “When you write something with your hand, there’s something very different that happens, physiologically in your mind – it helps you to think about what’s happening,” he said. “I think it was really simply and just really easy,” he says. To continue the conversation, we created our own installation inspired by Subway Therapy on the glass wall at our front entrance, Message for the President-Elect.As we explore the meanings and functions of democracy and the presidency in our new initiative, The Presidency Project, what role does Subway Therapy and our installation Messages for the President-Elect serve in giving voice to the People? What can we learn from preserving ephemeral objects during a controversial time?I chatted with Matthew to learn about his experience with Subway Therapy, first curious why he thinks people responded so strongly the concept. So we worked with Levee, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the MTA to collect and preserve a selection of sticky notes from Union Square. Here at the New-York Historical Society, we saw an opportunity to preserve a moment in time-through our History Responds program, our staff works to collect items significant to major moments in history as they happening. Armed with nothing more than some pens and sticky notes, Levee encouraged passersby to write down their emotions surrounding the election and post them on the wall.Subway Therapy, as it’s officially called, amassed more than 20,000 sticky notes along the station’s walls, growing far larger than Levee anticipated. LanierDuring the heated 2016 election, New York artist Matthew “Levee” Chavez famously started the “sticky note project” in the Union Square subway station in Manhattan.
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