Back
Created on December 29, 2020
504 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA, USA
"Voices of Perseverance"
Voice of Perseverance is a part of the Mending Walls RVA Project. More information about the project can be found at the website: https://mendingwallsrva.com/ . Below are direct quotes about the project from the website:
"Mending Walls is a public art project that brings together public artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create murals that address where we are now in society and how we can move forward through understanding and collaboration. Mending Walls pairs up artists of different backgrounds to create unique connections and give them an opportunity to tell their story collaboratively in an effort to express healing through connection. In this moment we all are searching for more understanding and this project will serve as a tool that would fuel connection through story telling. Our hope is to bring about healing through public art while adding something meaningful to the conversation of Black Lives Matter.
2020 has been a difficult year for the world. With the recent pandemic people all over the world have largely been put into situations and circumstances in which we have never have to deal with. In the midst of a global pandemic America was faced with another brutal killing of a black man at the hands of the police, which set off an uprising that has filled our streets with voices of objection, to the systemic racism here in America. Along with those protestors came opportunist that have left a path of destruction and vandalism across the City of Richmond. With some of our feelings and demands now physically on Richmond City walls through tags, these expressions leave and mark a space for questions and conversations to happen. These actions inspired the artist Hamilton Glass to start the Mending Walls project.
"Mending Walls is a public art project that brings together public artists from different cultures and backgrounds to create murals that address where we are now in society and how we can move forward through understanding and collaboration. Mending Walls pairs up artists of different backgrounds to create unique connections and give them an opportunity to tell their story collaboratively in an effort to express healing through connection. In this moment we all are searching for more understanding and this project will serve as a tool that would fuel connection through story telling. Our hope is to bring about healing through public art while adding something meaningful to the conversation of Black Lives Matter.
2020 has been a difficult year for the world. With the recent pandemic people all over the world have largely been put into situations and circumstances in which we have never have to deal with. In the midst of a global pandemic America was faced with another brutal killing of a black man at the hands of the police, which set off an uprising that has filled our streets with voices of objection, to the systemic racism here in America. Along with those protestors came opportunist that have left a path of destruction and vandalism across the City of Richmond. With some of our feelings and demands now physically on Richmond City walls through tags, these expressions leave and mark a space for questions and conversations to happen. These actions inspired the artist Hamilton Glass to start the Mending Walls project.
In Richmond, VA public art is one of the city’s biggest assets in the downtown area. As a city with one of the largest collections of public art in the United states we now have the unique opportunity to use public art as a tool to bring empathy and connect at a time when we need it the most.
Mending Walls was derived from a Robert Frost poem published in 1914. Mending wall narrates a story of two neighbors working on a wall between their two farms. As the men work, the narrator questions the purpose of a wall “where it is we do not need the wall” but as the story goes on his neighbor replies twice with the proverb, “Good fences make good neighbors”. It’s these hard conversations that the Mending Wall project is looking to help facilitate through public art."
Hunted by Emma Martin.
Marker details
| Date created | 2020-12-29T23:00:00.000Z |
|---|---|
| Marker type | artwork |
| City | Richmond |
| Country | United States |
| What3Words | silks.format.wicked |