After the election I was distraught. I had comfortably grown up in the extreme liberal bubble known as Seattle. In a night my outlook on the world was completely disrupted. I struggled putting to words how I felt. Hoping others could better articulate the trauma of the reaction results I resorted to Facebook. Instead I become even more disappointed. Both sides were spewing ignorance and going on emotionally charged rants. At first I thought I’d interview my peers, only showing their lips as they spoke so that the viewer couldn’t identify race or gender. To me this election was about much more then politics, it was about fighting for human rights that Trump so clearly doesn’t stand for. It seemed that humans were filled with so much bigotry and hate for one another. Have we forgotten that we are all human, all alike. Or was this never learned in the first place. As social media blew up, it became harder for me to go on discussing the election. It seemed and still does seem like few people were engaging in intriguing, creative, and simply smart discussions. I didn’t need to interview my peers because they had already posted their opinions everywhere. I decided that my contribution to discussing this election would be exposing how we as a community are talking about it. Community as in this country. I placed huge red lips over dress forms and had scrolls of posts people have made regarding the election. The majority of them were ignorant and emotionally fueled. The lips were meant to seem bigger than someones head, so huge that they were almost humorous. The neutral color of the dress forms and absence of any head made it impossible to recognize peoples race and gender. As well I blacked out their profile pictures and names. Ultimately this installation is showing that we all need to think before we speak. To some degree this project is incredibly ironic. Many criticize Trump for spewing nonsense yet over social media the world is doing the same.