As a resident of Thompson (more colloquially known as “The T”), I am all too familiar with the long walk home on the sidewalk parallel to park street that I share with all my T, Tyler, and The Anex brethren. While the walk can be beautiful in the day with all the statues and wildlife and passing freshmen to observe, come nighttime it becomes a frightening excursion into the great unknown, with few street lights to brighten the path and more importantly, zero blue lights.
In an effort to raise awareness about the lack of blue lights on this horrifying traverse, we set to the streets, armed with our new chalk, ready to show the world the dangers that could result from this deficiency of security.
We had four, blue-outlined silhouettes in different poses evenly spread down the Park Street sidewalk
In order the create these hopefully crime-scene reminiscent outlines, one of us was required to pose as a dead person on the ground while the other traced around our silhouette in blue chalk. Apparently our acting was fairly accurate, as during our instillation period (which lasted about 10 minutes), four different cars pulled off the road on Park street and drivers came running towards us to make sure that we were Ok. Perhaps Park Street in fact isn’t as dangerous as we perceived it to be.
Audience reactions included attempts to lie in the silhouettes and questions directed to us (by people who know of our 99) about whether or not we were behind their creation.
