Dahlia Elsayed
In Honor Of
November 2009
About the Project:
In Honor Of is a community based visual arts project that explores the
broader meanings revealed from local residents stories and memories. The
project is based on interviews, conducted by teenagers of older residents
in the city, which
will result in a site-specific outdoor sculpture for
the exterior landscaped portions Arts Council of Princeton building and
an interior interactive wall drawing that uses text from community interviews
to honor their memories of the city. In Honor Of is based on the idea that
universals come from specifics, and that a collection of publicly displayed
memories helps people shape an image of themselves, and collectively an
image of their community and city. The goal is to use art to document and
give voice to the memories of a topography and population
that is always
transforming.
Project Description:
The
interior component is a wall drawing of a map of the area of the Arts Council,
on which the public and visitors the building can attach “flags” with
their memories to a specific geographic point. >>The outdoor component is 10 standing “flags” made of painted wood
that are to be installed in the landscaping outside the building, which have
text from the research portion of the project.
Outdoor component is coming in Spring 2010; indoor component is now on view.