A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times

在恐怖时期重建信任的一种看似简单的方法

The Opinions

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2025-01-08

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As the world grows increasingly fractured, taking the time to engage with strangers has become even more important. The artist and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton has created a simple but powerful way for people to connect in an isolated world. In this episode, she shares how she brings people together by having them draw each other in public spaces. All it takes is 60 seconds, two pieces of paper, two pens and the willingness to look — really look — at someone you’ve never met.
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  • Here's what to make of it.

  • Well, we're standing on the High Line.

  • It's a ton of people going by, and we're carrying two folding chairs, a table, and sign.

  • A sign that says draw Together.

  • It just takes one minute.

  • I'm Wendy McNaughton.

  • I'm an artist, I'm a graphic journalist, and I'm trained as a social worker.

  • I ask people who don't know each other to sit down and look at each other.

  • A draw together strangers thing, where I'm asking strangers, people who have never met each other before sit across a table and draw each other for 60 seconds.

  • Except, like, with two.

  • I've done it in several different cities in different locations.

  • So in San Francisco, downtown, in Golden Gate Park, I went to downtown Los Angeles, also in New York City, Washington Square park, and the High Line.

  • My whole premise of my work is that drawing is looking, and looking is loving.