Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Great Divide: Dia de los Muertos

The Great Divide: Streetside Memorials. (8 w x 6 h x 1 d feet, Installation on chain link fence: photography, bicycle, candles, flowers, raffia, paper tags for public comment). Exhibited at Dia de los Muertos, SOMArt  Cultural Center, San Francisco, Oct-Nov 2010.

Photographs of streetside memorials for two young men, one black, one white, killed on opposite sides of the Bay in very different neighborhoods for very different reasons. Every day we walk past stories peeping like new grass and gum wrappers through layers of leaf litter—implications of race and class, public and private grief, intentions and consequences, growth and loss and the inevitable passage of time.


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