COMMEMORATIVE ART
by Joanna Gilman Hyde
My 1992 art project titled Satellite Art For Extraterrestrials is originally described in the following raw footage video of 22 minutes. The project is hereby designated to commemorate the lives of fourteen young women who were gunned down on this date, December 6th, 1989, at Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec — because they were women. With their families’ permission, I now plan to have commemorative markers to be designed and placed at fourteen specific geographic sites in Quebec and Labrador, Canada. Each marker will be placed in memory of what each woman was striving to achieve twenty-six years ago, and in honour of the strides all women continue to make for themselves and all of humanity:
Genevieve Bergeron 21
Nathalie Croteau 23
Anne-Marie Edward 21
Maryse Laganiere 25
Anne-Marie Lemay 27
Michele Richard 21
Annie Turcotte 21
Helene Colgan 23
Barbara Daigneault 22
Maud Havernick 29
Maryse Leclair 23
Sonia Pelletier 23
Annie St-Arneault 23
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz 31
This is such a fantastic idea for so many reasons!
Wow D.J. You are my first viewer and thank you very much for the comment!
I wholly agree with the last comment – a wonderful concept for a project.
Thank you so much CC — I was hoping You would comment.