The thing that was cool about this promotion was the attention it drew from such a mass of different demographics, whether it was artistic people, gamers, violent people and/or hippies. Over the week I had some interesting discussions with people about the picture. None more memorable than one particular homeless man at Waterloo. Initially he said to me he hated the piece and told me he was going to walk all over it and that I should fuck off back to the southern hemisphere. Doing my job I persuaded him not too and just kept him chatting to try and avoid a scene. As we got chatting he started getting really deep and telling me what a bad father he had been over the years and told me all about his failed marriage to an Australian Woman who lived just outside of Geelong. It was really quite emotional, and then in a split second he would go psycho again and tell me how he was going to go into the public bathroom and after he was finished no-one would want to ever go in there afterwards. I think it was pretty much a practical demonstration of schizophrenia. The whole thing was slightly disturbing but still interesting.
On another day I noticed an extremely dirty homeless lady with no shoes on and literally dirt all over her legs, only one tooth, checking out the piece. I went up to her and asked her what she thought of the piece, expecting some sort of a crazy answer and/or maniac response. Instead she had an extremely posh accent and raised some very intellectual points as to why she liked it and things she didn't like about it, then politely said thank-you and walked away. It bemused me.
Homeless people are so interesting and i really enjoyed my interactions with these two. As long as there not knifing you and/or asking for money. Bless their filthy cotton socks I say. I'll leave you with an emotional montage of homeless people I found on youtube. Bit of a shit way to finish I know. Some of the photography is nice though.
