A great Friday and a guest blogpost
Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:27PM We are having a great Friday at the One Million Bones office! We've scheduled two new events, both of which will be registering with Students Rebuild, and we've had great news on the logisitics for the big installation in 2013. Eduardo rocks! So, share our excitement and take it with you through your weekend. Whoo hoo...
Oh, and we posed a question on our facebook page: If One Million Bones could have any director make a documentary about the project who would you choose for us. Katie would choose the Coen Brothers; I'd choose Spike Lee. You? Let us know!
Now, I'm going to share the second guest blog post by our Amy Biehl intern Brendan. It's his re-cap of the 50,000 Bones Preview Installation.
Voices on the Street
by Brendan Donohoe
With a quiet clatter, the first bone was placed on the pavement. With that, the volunteers closed in, their arms filled with bones, patiently awaiting their turn to add to the ever-expanding field of white. Persons and families from varying genders, descents, religions, economics, health, education, and lives banded together to make their mark upon the streets and the world.
After about two hours, the goal had, at last, been accomplished. Where the street was once barren, it was now abundant with every type of bone one might imagine. Skulls, femurs, ribs all laid out, basking in the sunlight to form a colossal sheet of bones, each as varied, unique, and independent as those individuals who lost their life to genocide. With the finish of the installation came a moment of remembrance for our brothers and sisters. Their cries, their anger, their laughter, their joy, was audible through every corner of the installation. Finally, these oft-ignored voices could soar high above it all. At long last, there it was.
After hearing from the speakers, photos were taken and volunteers took a short break before returning outside. Just as earlier, the volunteers came together and gathered the bones from the street. After some time, the bones were stowed into the trucks, the volunteers returned home, and the street once again dimmed to the black of asphalt. The imprint the bones made, however, would forever last. For once, for once, the clutter of the everyday world had settled, past the political jargon and through the fiery drama of the media, making way for the issue rarely given voice, genocide.
Even so, killings still continue to occur in other parts of the globe. Recognition comes before action and, even with the 50K having finished, genocide continues mostly unseen, and thus, untouched. But this, I think, is a start. And, according to nature, a start will always have an end. How it ends, however, is our decision, and one that is to be made with our actions now.
Reader Comments (2)
Susan forgot that we also secured a planning committee for the Jefferson City installation for our Road to Washington Campaign! Thank you Kathryn Lass!
-Kathleen McEuen
So nice with the road, thanks your information.