Above is a picture of Sheryl Oring, an artist who is doing something interesting and big. Sheryl sets up a booth, and armed with a type writer she invites people to come and say what they wish to say to the President. They speak and she types, she then packages these letters and sends them to the White House. The project titled "I wish to say" came from a concern that not enough people had a chance to have their voice heard by the powers at be. On her website http://www.sheryloring.org/index.php you can view this and all of Sheryl's projects. Under this particular project you can view by state the letters people have been able to send thanks to Sheryl. These letters are not just political attacks and complaints as one might think they would go, but they are the genuine concerns of the people that make up the nation. I find this project extremely interesting and found the letters to be engrossing. You can feel the humanity coming from the people who are sending them. This is something that I think can be considered as real as it gets.
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