Sometimes Privacy Invasion is Real!

Photo by Darcy Olivia Moon

Article by Myra Sue St. Clair Baldwin

The sign says "Send police! Stop stunt!" It is a Myra Sue original from when I lived at the Couer d'Alene Plaza apartment complex in Spokane, Washington. Here I am pictured outside the local shop Boo Radley's, located next to the apartment complex. The inside of my apartment was plastered with signs, in a hope that someone who was invited to participate in an alleged spy operation , would see the signs on a remote screen and call the police to end what I called the "Privacy Invasion Stunt." I just recently added the anarchy symbols to the sign prior to my recent photo shoot. Most of the art work and signs from my apartment did not survive. They were left behind or later damaged by moisture in my parent's storage. Apparently,none of my alleged spies were brave enough or willing to rat out the rest of my alleged spies. One of my neighbors was very happy to see me get evicted.

Here's the store front for the shop Boo Radley's.
Photo by Orion Moon. November 2019.

Sometimes privacy invasion is a figment of our imagination, and sometimes it's real. Although I've been diagnosed with schizophrenia, I still to this day believe it's possible that I was really spied on, and I felt that I was at high risk for a real spy operation.

Photo by Orion Moon. November 2019.

Here I am outside my old apartment complex, the Couer d'Alene Plaza apartments.

I was evicted in January, 2016 due to having a hoarding disorder and my apartment being overgrown with books, huge art projects made from "junk", left-over packaging, and random paperwork I'd saved over the years.

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