Nevertheless, even though appreciation is a major aspect that satisfies the producer, there's another side to the story: the innate feeling of importance that something gives to you vs, the importance it gives to anyone else. You might write thousands of short stories, build a couple of sculptures, compose songs, but what if no one read them, no one bought them, no one heard them? Why would you keep on doing it?
If an object belongs to you, it will always remain salient until it expires or stops being crucial in your life. ✄ ✄ ✄ Caught up in this idea, brainstorming for the IA's finale -- :( -- culture book, dozens of solid proposals for the final thesis got shared at the business table; however, we where certainly not thinking on the effect that the product would have once published. Excited as hell, we thought about a "museum walk" at the black box, a huge timeline with important events, a small act of our learnings and experiences, a corner for each member of the IA to do whatever you wished regarding your 2 year journey, and most importantly the actual CULTURE BOOK: 4 pages per person. |
And that's perfectly fine
We had the initial idea of this massive anecdote scrapbook with the long-lasting IA ride, until then we had a huge audience --the entire high school to be exact. Reasoning was the key to understand that in reality the only ones who would actually picture the notes left by the IA'ers were us, the IA'ers. At this point, we understood that this whole idea of the culture book was important of us, not for everyone.