Aliens in Jackson Heights was a Big Success!

First, I want to say thanks very much to my donors, Participants, staffs, Queens Council on the Arts Fund, Jackson Heights Arts Festival, and New York Foundation for the Arts!

It was a big success.
Lots of pass-by people enjoyed taking photos, reading explanation of each Peekaboo-kun sculpture, enjoying being other person(in race, gender, and age), making the art certificates and taking the certificate for free with them.

I set eight of Peekaboo-kun sculptures in circle, looked like they talked each other.
This time I picked Peekaboo-kun representing different occupations and cultural diversity.
A taxi driver, a full time worker at NYPL, a gym trainer, a house wife, a part timer at a small market, a salesman,  a retired senior, a print shop owner.

Certificate(below)

Name: F. D.B.(young girl)

Original: Bangladesh,

Being: Chinese,

Words: I am old.

 Certificate(below)

Name: C. D. (female)

Original: Buffalo,

Being: Mexican,

Words: strong, happy, father, secure.

  

What kind of the world do you see through the hole on this Peekaboo-kun? What kind of world do you want to make?

 Certificate(below)

Name: D.G. (female)

Original: PuertoRico,

Being: Indian,

Words: I am an artist too! Art is beautiful. Art is happiness!

 Certificate(below)

Name: L.T. (female)

Original: American & Japanese,

Being: Malaysia,

Words: I like to hug mommy.

 ”Aliens in New York” is a short-term interactive installation using a group of Peekaboo-kun sculptures. It will promote mutual understandings among people who belong to different ethnicities, religions, races, genders, and other social standings.　

  Certificate(below)

Name: S.A., (female)

Original: Bulgaria,

Being: Anita from Chilly,

Words: I love to go home to clean and cook. Ohh man!

Pass-by people read the label on the each Peekaboo-kun, and put their face to the hole to watch the world.

Thanks for helping the project, Savi, Sohui, Collin, Phil, Sora, Sumika, and Zakir!