Mental Patience shows us that life can be as simple or as complicated as we make it – and sometimes both, simultaneously. Through observation, reflection, storytelling, and playful comedy, we explore what it means to navigate and confront life’s absurdities that are constantly surrounding us.
Payphones
“A little while back I discovered a public art experiment called The Goodbye Line, that makes use of abandoned payphones by inviting passersby and interested participants to use them and leave a message, one last time. To say goodbye to anyone or anything, ‘before it’s too late’.
Some people leave messages for deceased friends or family members, some for ex lovers who have moved on, some for despicable bosses. These anonymous recordings are then shared publicly on various platforms. But before what is ‘too late?’. In a literal sense, this means: before the payphones get ripped out, paved over, and are finally left for history to claim; in the interpretive sense, it can be defined by whatever our memory, our breath and our will have left in them…”