It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands
of families, neighbours and friends celebrating together in such a
happy atmosphere... «I hope that
memories of all this year's
happy events will brighten our lives for many years to come.
There is something intangibly familiar about these
events and the people within them — some
memory buried deep in our mind, like the one that haunts Charlie (Logan Lerman), the lost protagonist
of the story who simply wants to be found (Hopefully, whatever our
memory might be is
happier than that one).
Happy Together: Collaborators Collaborating was a new work, comprising a live
event and a film installation, but it also functioned as a form
of retrospective, collectively formed through the
memories and experiences
of Öğüt's collaborators.
Feed hungry babies, wipe up spills, exercise patience, calm squabbles, clean, cook, organize, get the laundry washed and put away, doctor's appointments, school activities, baseball, football, soccer games, plan celebrations and holidays, decorate for parties and seasons, bake cookies for school
events, buy and wrap presents, hugs, kisses, storytime, grocery shop, clothes shop, fix boo - boo's and owies, bring encouragement, pray, comfort hearts and wipe tears, make
happy memories, play games together, care for them when they get sick in the middle
of the night, change diapers, bathe the little ones so they're fresh, clean and smelling sweet, tuck them into bed with prayers at night, get out the door to go to church with hair combed and shoes on, tell them you love them to the moon and back, sit, listen and look into their eyes and savor their sweetness... and a million other things!