Improbable monument proposal

Deal with awareness.

Monuments, I believe, should be objects to bring or raise awareness. It could be historical events, person, etc. to remind us. For this assignment, I'd like my monument to raise awareness of people's awareness on other people in particular area - shopping malls.

My improbable monument would be placed probably in Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica because that is where many people are dressed up, hang out, and shop, and interestingly, (and you will know if you are there) they look at you from head to toe as if they are judging you whether you are cool or not. This made me really uncomfortable, but it was funny to me that they were not aware that they were judging the others while being judged by the others.
For my monument, I'd like to use this trick to reproduce this situation.
Disney Haunted Mansion Ride's trick on Youtube

Making of Haunted Mansion on Youtube (at 4:10)

Inspiration

"Erratic" by Roxy Paine

For the final assignment, I'm thinking of installing my improbable monument somewhere in Los Angeles. While looking for the best place to install, I found this sculpture, "Erratic," done by a New York-based artist, Roxy Paine. His work is installed in Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills. When I first saw this sculpture while driving Santa Monica Blvd. early this year, I thought it was a huge silver turd and so bold to place the turd next to Beverly Hills because I perceived it to show that celebrity culture is a full of crap, but people who live there are very rich.
However, Paine's actual concept of the work is to depict the struggle between the natural and the artificial; Humans always attempt to reproduce nature, but with technology, everything made by humans is unnatural.
In spite of his actual idea, it makes sense to me where the work is located because the culture and people's mentality and lifestyle in this particular area, I think, are unnatural or bizarre. I'm interested in finding out why this work is installed in Beverly Hills because I'm sure it's not accidental.

Monument Intervention

My group decided to do three different projects; dressing up statues, (pretend) watching TVin public, and putting up photoshopped Civil War pictures in Union Square. The former two projects were taken place in Golden Gate Park. Luis came up with the idea to dress up statues and we could have some of them to be dressed up.

This project definitely caught some people's attention. Some were laughing and others were taking pictures of them. And we were able to capture their response.

Angeline's "watching TV in public" was an interesting idea, but the setting and the layout of the park didn't work that well for this project (we did it anyway). 

Although this project didn't intervene in a way we wanted, her handmade TV in public was a little surprise to some.

Lastly, my project was to put up photoshopped Civil War pictures on a monument of a heart in Union Square. Before the Civil War began, Union Square was named after Union Army to show support for the United States of America. This place was once used for Civil War rally. Today, Union Square is a 'heart' of shopping and entertainment. So, I wanted to show the history of Union Square but in a funny way.

The picture above is a little funny to me because in one picture, Union army soldiers also have Nordstrom shopping bags.

Where we first place the pictures didn't attract people's eyes. No one bother looking at them, so we put them up on the back of the hearts. 

A few people briefly looked at my pictures. I guess that makes it a success. 

Here's the details of the pictures.

Culture Jamming -Monsanto