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Walter Hood on Rethinking Monuments and Memorials in the 21st Century

At a Distance

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The Garden of the Slave Ship Embedded in the Harbor

The idea is to create a garden that references our ancestors, who were slaves. We think upwards to forty plus % of the african they ask were actually landed there or perished there. I wanted it to be a place where people can come and think. It was a reference to tony morrison's chairs that she put out about a decade ago. And so in a way, as you're looking easterly, you're in relationship to those bodies that were lost in the travel,. As well as on shore, as well as through the diospera.

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