Thanks!

Your welcome! This is the first part of my new brief of the 2nd year. An opportunity to say thanks. But to whom? Why? And most importantly how?!

I've asked everyone (well almost everyone) I've run into over the last few days who was the last person they thanked, why and in what tone they thanked them. Saying thank you for someone passing you the salt during dinner is a long way from thanking someone for saving your life...not that this has ever happened to me! The tone and receiver of this thanks will determine the whole project.

The list of who to thank is long. But I don't want it to get to heavy or sickly sweet. I don't want it to be a thanks to Mum for all her support, or my girlfriend for her inspiration. I find all that a little bit twee or full on. Thanks can be a real throw away comment, and this is what I want to look into. The truth is we say thanks all the time, and often mean it but don't really say it with any purpose except on a few occasions. I want to think of who I have thanked recently so I can capture the feeling and thought behind the words, which should help manifest itself as the basis of my project.