A Nurse Is Bringing Light To A Dark Time With A Chandelier Made Up Of Vaccine Vials- NPR
- NPR, Sept. 8, 2021.
Laura Weiss was a retired nurse in Boulder, Colorado, but when the county department of health issued a call for help in vaccinating eligible residents against COVID-19, she signed up.
Over the past seven months, Weiss and her colleagues have inoculated hundreds of thousands of people, so she wanted to find a way to pay tribute to their collective effort. She's done that with a 4-foot-tall chandelier made with hundreds of vaccine vials that she's called the Light of Appreciation.
"I knew I had wanted to do something with light because I felt like it's just been such a dark year and a half that I wanted to bring light to whatever it was I was doing," Weiss told NPR. "It started just because I felt it was difficult to express my gratitude to the people I was working with, and the community effort that it took for so many people to get the vaccine," she explained.
There was no clear plan, she said. Just an urge to create something meaningful, some resourcefulness and a bit of serendipity. At work, she said, "we had hundreds and hundreds of empty Moderna vials that they were going to be wasting and I thought they were beautiful." Weiss asked if she could take them home. That's when she landed on a Craigslist ad for a chandelier and inspiration struck...
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- Laura Weiss created the "Light of Appreciation" to honor her fellow nurses who helped inoculate 82% of the population in Boulder, Colo.
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given by nurses and the hopes of recovery for all. What a breathtaking piece of art and craftmanship. It reminds me of - Artist Gustav Klimt's Golden Age:
- Adele Bloch- Bauer I (1907).
- The Kiss, (19807 -08).
