An new open-ended project generated with public participation by artist Nadia Myre
In 2005 Nadia Myre began a long-term exploration of how people describe their pain, hurt, healing, and scars with a needle and thread, and paper and pen. What emerged was The Scar Project, a viewer participatory open-lab/installation/exhibition where individuals could sit and ‘sew their wounds’, literal or metaphorical, on one of the canvases provided, and recount whether or not their scars could heal. This work, which consists of over to 500 scarred and sewn canvases and accompanying stories, documents a multitude of voices from all walks of life and age ranges.
With the Forgiveness Project (Pardoner Moi), Myre proposes a new open-ended art project where people anonymously send via email, post or online comment, things (ideas/words) they would like to be forgiven for. To participate simply leave a comment by clicking the add comment link below this page. Your comments can be signed anonymously. When making your comment please start the sentence with the words FORGIVE MY... / PARDONNER...
Please note that texts/words can be sent in anonymously or not. All languages are welcome, however they must accompany translations if they are not in English or French.
Posts
Forgive my unnecessary need to save the world.
ReplyDeleteForgive my stifled communication
ReplyDeleteForgive my failing you as a friend. Perhaps if I'd been there for you, you'd still be alive.
ReplyDeleteForgive my lack of interest. I'm hurt and being near you only reminds me of the pain.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for wanting more than ordinary, even when that means leaving you.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for needing you around.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for leaving.
ReplyDeleteforgive my inability to be everything you deserve, i love you.
ReplyDeleteForgive me, I only wanted to be your friend, not your lover.
ReplyDeleteForgive my limits.
ReplyDeleteforgive my weaknesses
ReplyDeleteForgive my expectations.
ReplyDeleteForgive my lapse those moments, thinking that maybe you should go. I would have given anything for you to have lived. I will love you forever.
ReplyDeleteForgive my being able to only think of myself.
ReplyDeleteForgive my self hatred!
ReplyDeletePardonne moi papa, pour le haschich qu,avait fait glissé mon copain dans la sauce a spaghetti,fait
ReplyDeleteavec tant d'amour.Jen'ai pas eu le courage de te le dire.Je crois que tu t'en ai douté il y a plus de vingt ans
Forgive my inability to look away...
ReplyDeleteForgive me for being miserable and looking down on you. I am unhappy in this place and although I am sure you're nice people you don't make me laugh and I resent having to be with you.
ReplyDeleteForgive my love for you.
ReplyDeleteForgive my screening your calls all these years. It took awhile to realize, Dad, that I actually do want to talk to you.
ReplyDeleteForgive my selfishness.
ReplyDeleteForgive my inability to love you; you're not the first, and you won't be the last.
ReplyDeleteForgive my desire and unwillingness to apologize for it.
ReplyDeleteForgive my inability to live up to your expectations.
ReplyDeleteForgive my part in your pain.
ReplyDeleteForgive my inability to leave everything behind...
ReplyDeleteForgive my choosing to see the best in you, it must have made being an asshole much more work.
ReplyDeleteForgive my blaming you for my lack of self respect.
ReplyDeleteI'll forgive you when I forgive myself.
forgive my failure to forgive you. I love you Ma.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for not being something that pulled you up off the ground, but instead something you had to overcome. Forgive me for not being the friend you deserved, for thinking only of myself, even now.
ReplyDeleteForgive the lies I've told.
ReplyDeleteforgive me for not being able to stop from loving you. i was the poison in your veins.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for lying about the life I live behind your back.. I'm so sorry, Mom.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for letting your bare the load alone.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for not trusting you.
Forgive me for not letting you into my heart.
...forgive my inability to forget you...
ReplyDeleteForgive my having taken everything you valued, and destroyed you emotionally. For smashing your self image, and rendering non existent any trust you had for me or ever will have.
ReplyDeleteForgive me, I have stopped listening for the moment.
ReplyDeletePardonnez-moi d'avoir été une junkie et d'être presque morte une nuit sous cet arbre
ReplyDeleteForgive me, for not knowing how to be a sister
ReplyDeleteForgive me, for trying to be your mother, because our mother was never there
Forgive me, for not telling you how much I loved you when we were younger.
Forgive me for hurting you.
ReplyDeleteForgive my resentment of my mother's cancer. Forgive my frustration that comes from the loneliness of being a 20 year old caregiver. Forgive me.
ReplyDeleteForgive me brother for cremating your body when I knew you did not want to be cremated. Please forgive me. I love you and miss you desperately.
ReplyDelete