Jingye Yao


















   

Mint Social


Medium: Installation | Public Art
Year: 2020
「Mint social」 was a kind of face-to-face social phenomenon, I’d like to create a mint corner before, but in this spacial circumstances, it inspired me that mint can be looked like a social safety distance in a sense.

My inspiration came from my personal habit—I always carry a box of mint or gum no matter where to go. And when there are someone else by my side, even I am not familiar with them before, when I take out mint, I will share with them. It’s like a new communicating way. And I called it mint social (which is like cigarette social, cause I don’t smoke, so I can just share mint or gum to others), so it’s my secret social way.

 
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