4/29/13:
"Homeless Projection: The Soldiers and Sailors Civil
War Memorial” by Krzysztof WodiczkWodiczko has created this awesome ode to the meek
and helpless in his projection. His
style is one that attaches site specificity to both bodies and places by placing
them onto prominent buildings. By doing
this, he is urging viewers to take into account the effect we have on other
peoples’ lives through modernism and urban development. The people he places onto his buildings are
ones who have been displaced by the effects of social development (namely
homeless people), giving them an ethereal quality and making them so large that
they can’t be avoided. By giving them
this importance, he suggests that these people are not a problem or threat to
society, but rather people just as important as any skyscraper or building in
the biggest city. I really like the
kindness and consideration he’s given to other people as well as the value on
human life. For the first time in a
while, an artist has put the mirror down and really put effort into recognizing
and helping other people rather than themselves, which is really something
special.
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