One of my favorite things about Sheryl Oring is how she takes words and turns them into her artwork. She get real life people to share their personal feelings and ideas, and I love how she displays the connections with people in her pieces. "Writing Home" and "I Wish To Say" both get so personal with people we consider strangers, yet after reading them you feel like you know them. You get insight into the relationships between family members in "Writing Home" and it has such a personal touch that you can't help but feel emotionally connected to the letters.
Not only do her projects unveil emotion and relationships, they are also a form of interactive media. She allows the audience to become part of her piece, and she forms a bond between the people that write letters for her. The fourth wall is not only broken, but the people in the audience are also the artists because it is their words that make the art.
Another way Oring involves the audience is in the piece "Rilke's Offerings". By placing letters addressed to "A Young Poet" all over the city, she is inviting any random passerby to get involved. Any reader who opens a letter is then given the power because they can choose what to do with it. They can throw it away, respond, or start a similar project of their own. Oring is spreading her ideas in such a way that might inspire other people to do the same.
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