Women of all ages cannot live without a mirror. Curiously, they all look into it with a varying eye.
A little girl looks in the mirror with admiration. She sees the woman she can be. She’s open, optimistic, fearless, playful, and joyous.
A more mature woman looks in the mirror and sees missed opportunities and imperfection. They have become judgmental of themselves. And as a result this insecurity creates inhibition and a tentativeness blinding them from their true selves and the carefree spirit that they held so dearly as a child.
always can free them from a life of hesitation, doubt, and insecurity controlling and inhibiting the freedom of spirit that they lived with as a little girl.
always will create studio installations in malls and high traffic shopping areas. Each installation is to be comprised of a pair of large life-size mirrors side by side and a table between them loaded with variety of totally disconnected props, makeup, knit caps, bubbles to blow, soda cans, jewelry, a tiara, celeb sunglasses, etc., etc., etc.
Each mirror has an LED banner with headlines that stream across it calling for the observer in the mirror to interpret / act out each headline appearing in front of them.
We will invite women of all ages to step in front of the mirror and animate the headline illuminated before them. “REVEAL YOURSELF,“ “EXPRESS YOURSELF,” “PRAISE YOURSELF,“ “INSPIRE YOURSELF,” and so on.
Each woman will attempt all, yet predictably will find themselves tentative, hesitant, and inhibited concerned with the judgment of all those around observing. She feels a bit tense, nervous, unable to relax and just let go revealing her true self. The prop table is left veritably untouched and she simply doesn’t know quite what to do with herself before the LED mirror.
Then out of the observing audience we’ll invite a young girl to join her in the parallel mirror. Unknown to the woman this girl is an actress prepped by always to convey these headlines with complete reckless abandon, joy, and in absolute glee with life.
The little girl immediately fills the roll improvising freely and playfully without inhibition animating the same exact lines willfully.
Completely entertained, the woman beside her now easily adapts a like attitude and joins the game both making full use of even peculiar props on the table and free of judgment and all insecurity.
Simply as a result of having this little inspiration and influence beside her, the woman finds herself freely and vivaciously interpreting the headlines with a more playful, creative, vivid, and joyful passion for life.
During all of this flagrant expressionism, a hidden micro cam placed in the mirrors has been documenting the woman‘s facial attitude changes, emotions, and the glee in the voice of free-willed personal expression.
Concluding the session we talk with each woman about their experience and the joy they’ve felt in letting go / letting their spirits fly completely free without care of judgement or opinion. We then thank them for their participation and reward them with instant glossy prints and a full length digital video download on an always USB. The video highlights a display of their reactions to the headlines both before and after the little girl joined them in front of the mirror.
CONCLUSION: Living life like a girl is inspiring and unobtrusively motivating. Now imagine yourself living all day everyday with this spirit and joy for life.
Live like a girl, always.