Today, one of my teachers wanted to go to HFAC with me and see my degree show since he hadn’t seen it yet. As he was flipping through my “Colors” book, he stopped and said “Cowards. They scratched a couple words with a pen!”

Late last year I sent an email to friends, family and associates in Kosova and asked them what three colors represented Kosova best and why. Colors is a book of their opinions. One of the answers in the book was: “Blue, Orange, Purple…I know they sound gay and stupid, but blue is for peace and cool and chill, orange is for the god damn sun : D more seriously though, warm color that goes perfectly with our mentality, and purple for heraldic purposes.”

I had no control over their answers, and I didn’t edit any of them. It’s only fair that way. So apparently when someone was viewing the colors book at my exhibition they scratched the word “God” and “Damn” with a blue pen. Who does that? I am not mad that a page on my book is defaced, I’m just mad that there is narrow minded people out there.

I am perfectly fine with people who are against swearing. I don’t encourage it either, and obviously I didn’t encourage people to use swear words in their answers for this book.

This is my final project in college, I have put one year of work into it and for someone to just go and open my book and scratch certain words with a blue pen is very disrespectful.