This Is How I’m Feeling: NYC
A private feeling, in public light.
One person.
Three windows.
A daily journal entry became an emotion, then a color. Three networked lights carried the signal into the studio windows, placing a private feeling in public view.
The days change.
So does the light.
Across the 2025 installation, the windows became a repeated encounter on the street. The premise later expanded into Tell Me How You Feel: ACG, where public signals and participant input share a space.
Project details
- Period
- 2025
- Location
- New York
- Form
- Site-specific installation
- Status
- Complete
About the project
An installation that streamed one person’s daily emotion into three windows as colored light.
What happens if you put one person’s emotion onto the street, in plain view, every night? A studio in New York became a nightly broadcast of a feeling.
The installation investigated how private emotion moves through shared space. One person, one studio, one feeling per day, three points of light.
System
Translation
- Daily journal
- Emotion scoring
- Color assignment
Broadcast
- A color signal
- Three networked LED fixtures
- Three studio windows
Each day began with a journal entry. The entry was translated into an emotion and then a color, using the scoring process shared with American Emotions. As the day’s feeling shifted, so did the light.
Affect as a shared coordinate
The work gives a direct form to the lab’s proposition that affect is a field phenomenon: it moves beyond the body and can become visible in shared space. The subsequent work, Tell Me How You Feel: ACG, scales this premise.
Installation record
- Site
- A studio in New York City
- Run
- 2025 · Complete
- Input
- One person’s daily journal
- Output
- Three networked LED fixtures
