Writing and Drawing
We provided these simple instructions in English, Spanish, Chinese and Hindi:
- Grab a piece of paper and a colored pencil
- Write “I live in …” and your neighborhood
- Write a message or draw a picture to express your feelings for your neighborhood
- Hang up your note and read other messages
then we provided some prompts to spur the imagination:
I live here and I remember…
I live here and I love…
I live here and I wish…
I live here and I miss….
I live here and I don’t like….
I live here and I worry…
It’s unclear how much people really saw/used the above prompts. They were translated into Spanish, Bengali, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Thai, Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, Russian, Polish, and Hebrew. Then the notes were taped all over the windows in brightly colored paper as people entered the space.
Photography

Photographer Aneeta Mitha takes the portrait of some Flushing residents who pose with their neighborhood puzzle piece.
Mapping

Nung-hsin Hu works with Fernanda Espinosa and Lori Wallach to assemble the puzzle map of Queens.