Amazing tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name

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To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, called "Monuments" [read more: https://buff.ly/3ChbM2N]


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5:37 AM · Aug 19, 2022

https://www.charlotteshout.com/events/detail/craig-walshs-monuments

Craig Walsh's Monuments
Challenging traditional expectations of public monuments and the selective history represented in our public spaces. Built for the great outdoors, Monuments celebrates selected individuals through large-scale, nighttime projected portraits onto live trees in public spaces for stunning effect. Monuments represents a haunting synergy between the human form, nature, and the act of viewing. Enormous night-time projections transform trees into sculptural monuments.

Monuments: Charlotte’s Descendants pays tribute to the lives of Mecklenburg County's formerly Enslaved citizens and free people of color throughout the 18th and 19th centuries by honoring descendants of African Americans working to make change through the Arts.



Seeing this made me cry....

[secondwind]

1. Wow, that's very impressive!!!

[chowder66]

2. I saw this on twitter yesterday and I have to say it's probably one of my favorite

art projects/installations I've ever seen. It's stunningly beautiful and so deeply profound.

[live love laugh]

3. Makes me emotional. Thanks for sharing.

[malaise]

4. Stunning

Haunting!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. That's the word I was looking for -- haunting.

Goosebumps.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ❤

[IcyPeas]

6. oh wow, this is so good.

[mushroomhunter]

7. this is sad

there's a small cemetery in my county with a monument dedicated to nameless persons buried there. I understand it was the site of a poorhouse. we had poorhouses when people had no money - am wondering if we'll get them back when the rethugs do away with Social Security?

[Red Mountain]

9. Only if we allow it

I'm thinking no.

[central scrutinizer]

8. I hope it's being monitored

Somewhere a proud boy with a chainsaw is making plans

[Red Mountain]

10. Second thought I had

First was along the lines of how beautiful this is....

[Solly Mack]

12. K&R

[Joinfortmill]

13. Wow