For this performance, the goal was for me to occupy a public space until I was forced to leave. (By the way, I started this way before the "Occupy Movement" began).

Spaces I chose were park benches, seats at the food court in a local mall, and other publicly available spaces. When you do this, you realize that although you are welcome to occupy these spaces for a short period of time, there comes a time when you need to leave. Maybe a place closes. Sometimes you must leave to make room for other people.

You eventually learn that even so-called public space is eventually off limits to you. You must test each space individually and it is only by trial and error that you can determine how long you may legally (or ethically) take up this space. Eventually your time runs out.

When public space is no longer available to you, what does it become? It becomes private, or at least public to someone else and not yourself. You learn that there is really no such thing as free public space.

Public space is an illusion.