In 2011 I adapted leaflet distribution methods from historic propaganda campaigns like those conducted by the CIA during The Cold War. I incorporated Walt Whitman's poem, “Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?” as a leaflet. He confides to his reader, “I may not tell everybody, but I will tell you,” conveying the idea that a public exists by virtue of being addressed, as well as the impossibility of total communion through public speech.

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​​Public speech must be taken in two ways:
as addressed to us and as addressed to strangers...the trace of our strangerhood remains present in our understanding of ourselves as the addressee.   

–Michael Warner