Idea for next wind-chime project, possibly in gallery 46:
Collective Chime
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- For the students of LCC, or the people who inhabit a place
- Bring an object from your past or culture
- Make sure that it is strong enough to make a sound when it hits a bell, and can bear wind and rain
- Bring objects from the history of the place: rocks in the soil, rubble from a building, the bones of an animal
- Use the objects to construct wind-chimes, using second-hand copper pipe as the tubes that sound a tone
- Create a weatherproof sign, with a small sentence on each object, and title it “We Are Here” in English or other languages
- Install the chimes in LCC or in the specific place
I’m thinking of positive messages, rather than a condescending message of blame or guilt that says “Look what we have done”. This collaborative piece is a subtle reminder of our histories sounding in the space. It also puts our histories along side the other histories in the place.