Harrison Haiku

In light of the adopt a trainstation program Columbia in partnership with Jones College Prep adopted the Harrison redline sataion. In the adoption of this largely used station the idea was to put an additional spin on the look and feel of the station. In attempts at making the Harrison station a better looking place the idea came about to put poetry on the walls of the station where you first walk in. The form of poetry came as haiku poems that were written by both Columbia students as well as Jones Prep students. there was also a shot at adding some colorfull designs along with the haiku poetry.
Although I think this instilation is largely over looked by passing commuters going in their verious directions. I guess this instlation was an attempt at trying to grab another piece of Chicago that lies in the columbia area and make it part of our own since many of us use it so often. How or why they came to the conclusion of using haiku as their instlation piece i am not sure i can only guess that, many other stations have their paintings, and we here at Columbia like to be different. The use of haiku is deffinatly a different idea, but there may be more to it. Are they trying to use poetry rather than paintings or pictures in a way to get the people who pass by to maybe take a moment to think, or think about it later? Or were they mearly trying to provoke more of an educated instilation, not that paintings or picutres are not educational.
With Harrison redline station being a dimmly lit grungy station you would think any kind of instlation would help, and i would say it would. Any kind of instlation might be able to distract yourself from at least the look of the environment around you untill you make it up those steps and back outside. How ever Columbia took an interesting approch to their instlation of haiku and colorfull designs. The use of vinyl stickers was an intersting decision for an arts college to use for an instilation, and for the colors I guess they our part of our columbia standard color pallet. Even though the instilation may have slightly helped the look of this part of the station i think that columbia fell short on what could have been possible for this space, not in what was done but how and with the materials they used. So in all i think that what columbia and Jones Prep have done here is a step in the right direction here, i think they still have a little ways to go in their instilation work for the station.