I turned up at Conflux a few minutes before 11am with the 24 Hour Road Trip Group (more on that tomorow). I particularly enjoyed talking to Paul Harfleet about his work on The Pansy Project. The project was more personal as well as more political than many other works I saw during the festival. Paul returns to streets or locations where he experienced verbal homophobic harassment or abuse and plants Pansies. The plants are appropriately enough named after the abuse he encountered. I really appreciated the concept of turning negative experiences into oportunities for reflection and positive reactions. Paul described the project as a way of expressing and releasing his anger caused by homophobic abuse. He has a gallery show in London comming up in October, so hopefully I'll be able to attend and check it out when we get there. Check out my flickr for more pictures from Conflux, including The Pansy Project.
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