Selected Assignment: Cultural Enrichment


 

“FGCU Remembers: The Covid Memorial Project.”

Visited on: March 22nd, 2021 at 8:27 AM

I heard about this art display on March 21st (my birthday!) through FGCU’s main Instagram account page. The caption read: “thousands of hand-sculpted tributes going up on FGCU’s Great Lawn as a powerful visual memorial to the scores of individuals lost to COVID-19. “The art installation is called: “Field of Remembrance, Cathedral of Sky” as stated in the caption on Instagram. I really wanted to go and see it because so many people’s lives were lost this past year to COVID, that it is difficult to picture the amount in our minds. Seeing the visual representation on the library lawn was a sad but eye-opening experience because I was able to visually quantify the number of lives lost to the virus just locally in SWFL. I noticed that some of the flowers were painted with a brown and blue rim, whereas others were left white. I also noticed that it seemed as if each flower was handmade instead of coming from a mold, because I did not see two that looked exactly alike. Maybe that was meant to symbolize the uniqueness of the amazing people who lost their lives to the virus. Overall, I am very glad I was able to see this art display. I hope that it brought some clarity to certain students in that many people’s lives were lost so the pandemic needs to be taken seriously.



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