Imagine, a place where you can find a voice; words, that you never wrote down to send; you were scared, you felt bad, you were missing someone, you were in love. That is the brave thing of The Unsent Project that is a living piece of art and emotional documentation of visual artist Rora Blue. The anonymity, the fake anonymity of this project leaves the door open and invites all the people of any walks of life to share the messages that they have never sent to people, who are most central to themselves, or at least have been once. This is whether it is a first love, a lost friend, family member or any third party these unsent messages turns to form a whole story that is constituted by the notions of vulnerability, memory and emotions.
Not only the words but the color, in which a sender wants to add his or her text, is the striking feature of the project; the feeling has been moved to the visualization. Red can be beating in love or anger; blue can be exuding melancholy or rest, yellow can be glowing with nostalgia or expectation. Each paragraph is directed to a text and a tone which is a constituent of a glowing mosaic that deals with the common humanity.
From Silent Thoughts to Shared Stories
It was initiated back in 2015, and appears both small (in scale) and large in its consequences. It was an extremely challenging question by Rora Blue: What do you see love in? Between times it has received millions of messages filling the archive of the project – messages submitted by people worldwide. Each of the words is a fragment of an utterance of confession or apology or wish, and one can read between the lines and visualize what it might have been, but it is never uttered–not to any one particular person, that is.
The one was built on over time. It started when the messages were sent to first loves but was slowly expanded to everything that everyone failed to say whether to their love interest, even the person they are friends with or to the family including their pets. Honesty is the freedom that is guaranteed by the anonymity aspect. One should take no architect about who will have it, the thing is that it is shared.
Why This Project Resonates
The Unsent Project has as its premise something very universal, the burden of unsaid words. There are all sorts of messages which we carry in our heart which we must never say with our mouth or over the keyboard. Why, maybe it was something that you were afraid to say, or did not say, something you never told, a word of plain home-truth that you could find no way to say. The project provides that person a safe and faceless location in which that person can relieve himself of that burden, but without any fear–quite to the contrary, with great dignity.
This release can be most therapeutic. It is its own form of closure to many to ink the unsent message. It is a self-validation to read the things that are shared by other people and then assures oneself that not an individual one feels like that. Also, it is politics, therapy and art in unity.
Color: The Language of Emotion
Myriad shades bring out a feeling that the words cannot do. That is what makes the difference between The Unsent Project and inserting the tone of color as an emotional filter. The respondents are assigned a colour to be adopted in order to indicate how they feel about the message or the individual being addressed. This renders each submission to be a form of emotional snapshot, that is both denoted and represented in a form of a picture.
Think of the scrolling ocean of messages-blues and grays of those who are still mourning, reds who burn with their remorse or passion, flashes of yellow fondly smiling memories, black with the finality or its closure. Not reading, but surely a fundamentally devilish conversation beyond the color or feeling of it.
Art, Healing, and Connection
Other than page turning of words and colors, the project achieves its success as a piece of art and a personal campaign. Rora Blue work has reached out to communities and penetrated the mind of teachers, artists and mental health advocates. The unsent letters are mentioned in the courses of creative writing. In order to keep up with the crude sensitivity of the project, artists obtain the urge to make collages or installations. Mental-wellness arguments lay a stress on the prospect of anonymous release in order to draft existent curing.
The cultural ripple effect in the project shows that there exist occasions where people do not communicate or communicate a message is in itself, a manner of strong expression. The Unsent Project is turning the silence into something more drastic, a collection of purposeful discussion.
How You Can Add Your Voice (Without Sending It)
Participating is simple:
- Visit the official web site.
- Write explanations of your own silences–direct, choppy and candid.
- Pick the color which will serve as an adequate reason of your mood.
- Submit anonymously.
Your note will arrive locally like a square in this global affective blanket- a reminder that even the unspoken words can be weighty, meaningful and beautiful.
Conclusion
Unsent Project is not just a chain of sentenced anonymities, it is an internet expression of those sentences that never could have been told, written, heard or watched. It serves as an alarm that, verbal or non verbal, communication bears its burden and sense. Giving individuals chance to express what they could not express in real life makes the impression of relatedness in life which on the other hand is an indicator of the common nature of human feelings. Whichever way you get to it, being a comfort, a curiosity and self discovery, the Unsent Project presents you with one singular fact, there is nothing in this world that is unsaid.
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