Hello All!
This is the first time I have ever done anything like this before but I wanted to create a place where I could document the progress of The Steel Bridge installation on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, as well as receive feedback and open up a forum for discussion on the topic and how the over all project is coming along.
This is a forum build for thought provoking conversation and Ideas. Beginning with Maslow’s theory on Hierarchy of Needs and challenging it with Freudian thought regarding the unconscious mind and how Edward Bernays took these thoughts and applied them to the masses beginning in the 1920’s and shaping the consumer world we live in today, shifting our minds from what we need to an irrational desire of an ideal that can never be obtained.
This installation is questioning what our wants vs. our needs really are. These words have been fused together over time making it difficult to listen and understand the difference between the two. I encourage you all to walk the bridge, find the signs, write your thoughts and observe people. Start a conversation you otherwise would never have had with a passerby in regards to these ideas and the questions that are being asked.
Where do your deepest desires lie and how does that affect your decisions in understanding what it is you [want] versus what it is you [need]. Shift these words around, play with them and begin to understand your mind under and completely new light.
ENJOY! I can’t wait to hear what everyone has to say.
Wants vs. Needs 