Will Johansson's Art

Lights, language, and the playa!

Sign Language Confessional Booth

Confess your sins in ASL! Our booth has holes for your dusty, sinful hands!

A confessional booth built with my father, reimagined for Deaf penitents. My dad's playa name, Father Anal — an anagram of his real name Alan — was bestowed in 2023 through means I will not relitigate here. The following year, he wore the cassock to commit to the bit. Traditional confessionals don't work for Deaf people, because the whole apparatus depends on hearing a whisper through a lattice. My dad proposed the obvious fix: cut a couple of holes in the wall, let the hands... or whatever you want... through. Problem solved!

Sign Language Confessional Booth is what happens when the bit keeps committing...

Playa Events entry

A photo of the Sign Language Confessional Booth on the playa

Sound-reactive LED programming

Developed sound-reactive LED programming for Backfire's chill space.

Source code on GitHub.