Paula Crown
What Are You For?
2020
Boston, MA
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Crown uses this platform to ask the viewer: What are you for? Her question prompts us to consider what we stand for and what we value. It challenges each person to step outside of the negative echo chamber polluting our discourse and refocus our lens on the positive. This question was born from Crown’s #IamFor (2018), an interactive artwork where Crown invites visitors to write down what they are for on a black sports ball before dropping it into an open atrium. These visitor-created messages populate the background of Crown’s 2020 billboard and remain evergreen and universal, espousing values of love, freedom, and democracy.