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Poster signs deliver
holiday cheer to all
Nate Chung spent the better part of the year pondering and planning his day of demonstration. He worked for months silk-screening 40 poster-size signs and assembled some 30 peers to wave them.
Chung's big day finally arrives tomorrow morning at 9:30 sharp at the University of Hawaii-Manoa's tree-shaded mall. His cause? Encouragement and gratitude, and a noncommercial way to bring holiday cheer to the masses.
The 22-year-old art student is passionate about his self-proclaimed "artful demonstration," in which one-word signs will be held up in greeting to passers-by, stating such messages as "You," "Are," "Fantastic" (or "Unique," "Super," "Lovely" and the like). Chung calls his statements "a personal project to see how walking in generosity affects people."
Passers-by will be able to share their own compliments about the university at a designated booth. The comments will be published in Ka Leo, the campus newspaper, he says.
Chung says his demonstration isn't a response to anything negative; rather, it's an opportunity for him to "just get to be generous, honestly." He says the event has enabled him to use what he's learned as an artist to cultivate an atmosphere of encouragement, via his signs.
Tomorrow won't be the first time Chung has staged an artful demonstration. He created one in Los Angeles a few years ago in which he painted positive messages on steel signs that resembled "No Parking" signs.
"People told me they felt warm inside and that they had a great day" afterward, he says.
A vital facet to each demonstration has been garnering the involvement of others. "I could go sit in a lawn chair by myself and prop all my signs around me, but that's not really the point," he says. "To see the sign wavers, to see this vision multiply, excites me, also."
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