project goals

I've been having a lot of doubts about this project. Do I really want to do it – invest my time and money? Do I want to travel around the country with a trailer? I’m shy around strangers. I’m afraid to go to strange places and meet new people – of being an outsider – of being alone. What will all these efforts accomplish? Since I've been having my doubts, I've come up with some goals...

• Focus attention on the personal slogans people live by, thus providing a homeopathic antidote or remedy to the political and commercial sloganism of our times.

• Create awareness about mantra and repetition as both a mind tool for empowerment and as a mind control instrument that enslaves.

• Foster a dialogue about the ways that political, religious and imaginative language shapes our vision of the world.

• Document authentic spiritual mantras from various religious traditions and faith communities, thus exposing the public to the richness and variety of spiritual practice.

• Record the personal mantras of individuals at specific events and locations to provide an aural snapshot of distinct geographical, cultural and self-selecting communities.

• Disrupt patterns of social isolation via the chance intersection of a by-passer’s internal monologue and the mysterious, internal-now-external broadcast of the other.

• Provide an activity for authorship and the exploration of authentic voice.

• Take a personal journey of finding my voice, facing my fear of the unknown, of being a wanderer among strangers and finding home.