Fail Harder

"Fail Harder" together these two words fight against all of the slogans ingrained in my brain throughout my public education experience. As a child we are told to work hard and try our best, and we diligently do so because of the ever constant fear of failure.
Fail: to fall short of an accomplishment, to get less than a passing grade in school, to die...etc.
Failure is a scary word which is mostly associated with not being enough or being 'less than'. In school children fear letting down their parents by getting an F and being made fun of in front of their peers. When you reach adulthood failure is more often weighed with risk and personal humiliation. What we forget are the lessons that come with the failure. The things we learn from what goes wrong ultimately will contribute to all the wondrous things that go right. Unfortunately the only way to really learn these lessons is to fail and sometimes we must fail over and over to get the lesson. The harder we fail the more we will learn, and the more we learn the wiser we shall become in our decision making.
This message of failing in a grand scale is simply communicated in this art instillation by the use of thumbtacks. It is simple and effective and reminds us not to fear our failure but to do our best in life and learn from all the things that don't turn out just right.
Fail Harder