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Public Feeling Station
This is a place to feel out loud.
The Public Feeling Station is a participatory art project made up of two simple boxes: one red, one white. One for complaints. One for compliments. Together, they offer the full spectrum of what it means to be human.
The Complaint Box is a place to release what feels heavy—quiet truths, uncomfortable thoughts, the parts of us we usually keep hidden. It’s not about negativity. It’s about honesty. About letting the shadow breathe.
The Compliment Box is for the soft things we notice but rarely say—moments of beauty, small joys, gentle recognitions. It’s a way of splashing whispers of light into the world, with no need for a recipient. Just a raised frequency.
Each day on playa, a single anonymous submission from each box is shared on two nearby chalk boards—one from the shadow, one from the light. The pairing becomes a mirror. A soft echo. An invitation to see yourself in someone else’s words.
This isn’t about fixing.
It’s about feeling—together, in public.
Because honesty takes courage.
Even—especially—when no one knows it’s you.
It takes bravery to put something real into a shared space—
to let your truth exist where others might read it,
feel it,
recognize themselves in it.
This is a space for that kind of openness.
Not performance.
Not perfection.
Just truth, offered bravely.