Red Hook, Brooklyn. This scene reminded me of an Ed Ruscha painting, except for the memorial flower arrangement.
Photograph by Angela Riechers.
Ephemeral Memorials Made of Salt
Artist Motoi Yamamoto was 24 when his little sister died of brain cancer. He began memorializing her through large-scale drawings made with salt.
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In Japan, salt is closely tied to funeral rituals and mourning. In traditional funerals, mourners will throw it behind them as they enter the service. Before a match, sumo wrestlers often purify the ring with handfuls of the stuff, too. For Yamamoto, who grew up by the ocean, it was a medium that reflected his grief, as well as the fleetingness of life.
Skull pinhole cameras by Martin Wayne Belger. Top, Third Eye; bottom, Yama. To see more examples, check out his site.
25th Anniversary of the AIDS quilt
The AIDS Memorial Quilt contains more than 47,000 panels with the names of more than 93,000 people. Laid end to end, they would stretch more than 50 miles. Displaying the whole thing is such a huge undertaking that it hasn’t been tried since 1996, but it’s about to be done, in a series of events beginning Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of that first display.
