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Splatter Ball at Rosedale Recreation Center, 7th and Gale Street NE, 1966 |
In 2021, I was selected to be a part of the first Public Interest Design Lab fellowship in-collaboration with the DC Public Library and the Goethe-Institute, to begin the process of building Voices of Rosedale, a public art project.
Employing oral history as a tool for deep listening, Voices of Rosedale centers on Rosedale, a small neighborhood located in NE Washington, D.C. The project invites public dialogue around the intertwined social issues highlighted and exacerbated by COVID-19, including health inequality, racism, and the transformative effect the pandemic is having on our understanding of loss.
This project’s conception as a public oral history archive ties into my work about consciousness and end of life, as both are interested in the concepts of relic and afterlives—in what remains after a person or moment has passed, and how we can remember, capture, and celebrate the departed in tangible, collaborative ways.
Ultimately, Voices of Rosedale will culminate into a public art work, a representation of introspective experiences, which help to commemorate and make visible these transitory experiences which might otherwise be lost to time.
