2025 Third Shift Festival, Saint John, NB

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​Let Me Be Your Punching Bag! is a playful, text-based interactive installation for all ages. Participants are invited to release worries and emotions through physical movement, channelling built-up energy and intense feelings by striking boxing columns. These columns are marked with handwritten words of personal struggle, in any language that brings comfort, written with markers. As more words appear, the columns respond with motion and light, bouncing back and forth, transforming the space into a site of catharsis, play, and emotional release.

Let me Be Your Punching Bag!, Punching Columns, Markers, Puck Light, Dimensions Variable, 2025 (Image Credit: Third Shift Festival)

This work was generously funded by SK Arts, through The Building Arts Equity: BPOC Program, with funding provided by the Government of Saskatchewan and the financial support of Sask Lotteries, in partnership with SaskCulture.