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Oh, Fahgettaboudit!

POSTED: Thursday, September 30, 2010, 4:43 PM

Filed Under: Arts | Just Do It Visual Art

Photo | Kim Hausen

Been lugging around a grudge for a little too long? We know a fun way to let that bitch go. For the second weekend in a row, Artists' Anonymous founder Aleister Tanek Javas Mraz will be in Rittenhouse Square to present 70x7 — The Art of Letting Go, a interactive production that allows passersby to write a message of forgiveness on one of 490 cardboard word balloons. Once they've completed their absolving scribbles, the cardboard piece will be attached to a chopstick and stuck in the ground along with all the others. "The appearance will be akin to a graveyard," says Mraz, "It's a way to signify 'burying the hatchet." Last weekend 101 people showed up to write funny messages like, "I forgive you for always stealing the covers at night," but sometimes they got a little serious. One read, "I forgive you for stealing my social security #, for stealing my trust, for stealing my youth, for stealing my faith in family, Mom..." Ouch. Mraz and a couple of volunteers will be back in the park this Fri.-Sun from 1 p.m. to sundown to have the remaining 389 signs claimed. He says they'll be situated next to the garden shed in the corner of the park that's across from Tuscany CafÃ© (222 W. Rittenhouse Sq.). If you stop by, what are some of the things you'd write? Feel free to share some of your juiciest thoughts in our comments section.

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