Instruction from Alan Perez (Gibraltar)

„During the day smile to 30 people and then smile to yourself.“ Alan Perez, fellow artist from Gibraltar and also part of the Gibraltar-Berlin artists exchange project, wrote me this instruction, and sent it from Berlin, where he stayed one month in the summer.

I like to smile. Also to people. But to count my smiles was new for me. So I did yesterday, on the 28th of September 2016. In the evening I had my 30 smiles, even 33. But only half of the strangers I smiled at, smiled back. Good or bad record? I don't know. I tried my best. And to smile at myself afterwards was simply – good. Thank you, Alan.