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Words Over Windows -- An Art Documentary
Aug. 20th, 2020 05:16 pmMy husband David has made a photo documentary of some of the art and graffiti that appeared on boarded-up windows after the protests against the killing of George Floyd began.
You can see all the photos on the website. There's also an ebook, I think intended mostly for tablets, and a paper book, both available via Amazon.
Here is the website:
https://wordsoverwindows.dd-b.net/
Many of these images are very beautiful. Almost all of them probably have the potential to be disturbing because of what the art arose from and commemorates, but they are aftermath. The ones I have extreme trouble looking at are those of the remnants of Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, which was burned to the ground and fell into its own basement. You can still tell that it was a bookstore, crammed and overflowing with new and used books. It was one of two independent sf bookstores in Minneapolis, a fixture among book lovers, the first place I ever did an autographing session. This tragedy is not as deep as death, but it is very difficult.
Here is a link to the fundraiser. Don doesn't really know how much money he'll need to rebuild, whether he can do so on the site or should move elsewhere, whether he should consider moving to a mail-order business at his home, or what. But Uncle Hugo's in some form can rise again.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/let-us-help-save-uncle-hugo039s
The Midway neighborhood in St. Paul was also burned and damaged. Here's a page with a list of donation links at the bottom:
http://www.midwaychamber.com/member-relief
And here is a link for Black Visions Collective:
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
I didn't make this post to get your money for these causes. I thought people might want to look at the photos on the website. But very often people do want to know what they can do. So there are a few options.
Pamela
You can see all the photos on the website. There's also an ebook, I think intended mostly for tablets, and a paper book, both available via Amazon.
Here is the website:
https://wordsoverwindows.dd-b.net/
Many of these images are very beautiful. Almost all of them probably have the potential to be disturbing because of what the art arose from and commemorates, but they are aftermath. The ones I have extreme trouble looking at are those of the remnants of Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, which was burned to the ground and fell into its own basement. You can still tell that it was a bookstore, crammed and overflowing with new and used books. It was one of two independent sf bookstores in Minneapolis, a fixture among book lovers, the first place I ever did an autographing session. This tragedy is not as deep as death, but it is very difficult.
Here is a link to the fundraiser. Don doesn't really know how much money he'll need to rebuild, whether he can do so on the site or should move elsewhere, whether he should consider moving to a mail-order business at his home, or what. But Uncle Hugo's in some form can rise again.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/let-us-help-save-uncle-hugo039s
The Midway neighborhood in St. Paul was also burned and damaged. Here's a page with a list of donation links at the bottom:
http://www.midwaychamber.com/member-relief
And here is a link for Black Visions Collective:
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
I didn't make this post to get your money for these causes. I thought people might want to look at the photos on the website. But very often people do want to know what they can do. So there are a few options.
Pamela
