New Yorkers Turn Feelings About Trump into Subway Art

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When Donald Trump won the U.S. Presidential election earlier this month, many folks in New York City took it very hard. The city voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, and Trump’s victory left many New Yorkers shocked, saddened and scared. Some protested, some drank, some marched on Trump Tower…

…and others did Subway Therapy: writing their thoughts on Post-It notes and sticking them by the tens of thousands on the walls of those most New York of places, subway stations. The result is part revelation, part catharsis, and part a very colorful – and engrossing – art project in 3×3-inch swatches of pastel and day-glo.

Even weeks after the election, emotions are still running high, and commuters and visitors alike continue to leave notes.

Some of the messages contain familiar memes that have become social media hashtags, like “Black Lives Matter” and “Not my President.” Others are more individual, such as “We are not rapists or murderers. Viva Mexico!!” and quotes such as Gandhi’s “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Still others were expressions of solidarity, like “Paris is with you” and “I won’t let him hurt my planet. I won’t let him hurt my friends” – that signed by a self-proclaimed “Lesbian Jew New Yorker.” The largest collection of messages appears in passages inside Union Square station in Lower Manhattan.

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