I wanted to join technology, nature, feelings, and human interaction together. I examined the emotions people feel about the environment by juxtaposing these thoughts within nature. We Feel Fine supplied the feelings, and is a website that

has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence. We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion. It uses large scale blog analysis to provide a glimpse inside the hearts and minds of people all around the world. It collects around 20,000 human feelings per day, often accompanied by demographic information about the author of each feeling (age, gender, geographical location, and local weather conditions).

We Feel Fine realized that the internet, often considered “cold, inhuman, emotionless space, was now harboring a large amount of human emotion.” Interested in the idea that all these free and anonymous emotions existed, I used the feeling “environmental” to search We Feel Fine. After gathering and selecting these feelings, I wanted to reintroduce them back into nature to take the feelings of an unnatural space back into a natural space. As a result, these feelings become anonymous yet intimate when combined with the environment they reflect on.

Volunteers transcribed the feelings onto seeded paper, which is biodegradable planting paper infused with wildflower seeds. I strategically placed them in nature, photographed them on a digital camera, and now have reintroduced these images back to the “cold, inhuman, emotionless space,” this time infusing them with organic surroundings. After the feelings disintegrate, wildflowers will grow in their place, reflecting the wildness and dispersion of the range of human emotion collected by We Feel Fine. The reintroduction of the photographs back to the internet returns the feelings back to their original environment, this time conjoined with environmental grounding.

Photographic Gallery of the Project 

Feelings Used:

I’d love to have a new motherboard for example but now I feel like I should really be buying one that meets some kind of environmental manufacturing standards and that is rare

 

I wish success in my career which would be to successfully feel as though I’m making a difference in the environmental and human rights arena

 

I do feel some amount of guilt for the environmental impact of some motorsports

 

I do feel like flores preaches just a little too much about the environmental destruction and political problems currently plaguing our country

 

I felt inspired from a cohort speech about the hot topic of going green and feel that I should advocate here for environmental and social responsibility

 

I am dealing with feelings of environmental guilt that I have never had before

 

I was expecting a stinky house messy leaks and a feeling of environmental conceit

 

I’ve been trying to be better and better all the time because I feel that environmental and social responsibility should be a part of everyones lives

 

I can feel no guilt about the environmental impact

 

I urge everyone who also feels the way I do to join me in this action showing the environmental wackos that they aren’t fooling everyone

 

I don’t feel that the world is a much cleaner environmental place

 

I feel this is my last tryst with environmental science

 

I feel like environmental care is intimately related to our care of others

 

I feel so steeped in environmental awareness that I sometimes forget other people don’t think about things like emissions trading or the endangered species act all the time

 

I feel that my environmental beliefs are rooted in respect for the planet that gave me life

 

I feel like writing so I’m going diva environmental style

 

I feel that the environmental movement is more than a trend it is a lifestyle and children have to be brought up with an awareness of nature

 

I feel is little environmental impact by cars

 

I feel like a lot of my environmental choices were usually driven by my financial situation rather than my desire to save the planet like getting rid of my car or living close to downtown so I could be near everything

 

I feel I should point out here that the environmental cause I donate to is greenpeace

 

I feel that more and more religious leaders should take up the environmental pollution agenda in their preachings and educate the masses that it is a gross sin

 

I feel like a traitor to environmental science

 

I feel like I have entered some sort of environmental nirvana despite all the driving

 

I feel a type of environmental superiority whenever I take public transportation

 

I feel I need to do some penance for my participation in this environmental monstrosity

 

I feel I hate these environmental loving go vegan poetry night going assholes