Assemblymember Deborah Glick was the only elected official at the rally, since many people are now out of town on summer vacation.
In her remarks, speaking from the small stage south of the Garibaldi monument, she fired up the crowd. But Glick said the university is the one benefiting from its association with the Village, not vice versa. The lawsuit delayed the start of the project for three years.
At every turn, the community is facing overdevelopment, she said, from Gansevoort St. Similarly, the city is trying to shoehorn residential buildings into Brooklyn Bridge Park, she said.
Representatives of N. Mark Crispin Miller, the leader of N. The British-born Andrew Hamilton will be taking over as N. Contrasting him with Hamilton, Miller scoffed at Sexton — known for freely giving warm bear hugs and sporting a Yankees cap — for his effusiveness and boosterism.
A young woman walked onstage wearing an elaborate, black-feathered mask. A rising N. She is just one of many young college students, she said, who have had to turn to the likes of craigslist, backpage. But as she continued to do sex work, her grades slipped and she found she was always handing in her papers late. From a young age, Deokhye was taken from her family, stripped of her national identity, and forced to learn the language and culture of her colonizer.
While I want to stay true to the events of her life, I do not want to commemorate her in this light. My monument would be placed in Koreatown, Long Island, since it holds one of the largest Korean populations in the United States. The Korean community in New York is composed of immigrants, Korean-Americans, or in my case, international students, and more.
Despite the diversity within the community, we all share a longing for Korea whether it be Korea as a home, family, or a missing identity. For this reason, I want my monument to both commemorate Princess Deokhye and provide a space that could foster solidarity within the Korean community. In order to achieve this, the monument would be constructed out of stainless steel to allow passersby to see their reflection in the statue: they would not only see Princess Deokhye but see themselves in her.
Furthermore, there would be a kiosk where people could sit and write their experiences as a Korean living in New York. Upon their choice, they could either keep their memos or post them on the kiosk for others to read. Through this individualized but shared act, I aim to transform the public space into a liminal space that could allow the viewers a moment to reconnect with themselves.
Monuments not only represent the past, but also the present and future as they reflect what we inherited, believe in, and celebrate. The story of Deokhye Ongju will not act as a reminder of a painful history, but symbolize an inheritance of patriotic solidarity, identity, and community that lives on in the present and will be carried on into the future.
East Asians are widely underrepresented in the states, and one of the aspects that can illustrate the issue is through the scant number of monuments related to Chinese culture. According to the NYC Parks site, there are only three monuments that are associated with Chinese figures, and among those three, none of them are about a female character.
Therefore, I propose a monument to one of the most controversial and powerful females and the first female Empress in Chinese history, Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian — AD embodies an example of a powerful and controlling female leader. The unapologetic attitude of a powerful female ruler is not often associated with Asians in Western culture. The appearance of the monument would be intimidating.
First, looking at the monument, the audience should be able to know that the figure is a powerful ruler. In order to highlight the contrast of the stereotypes between what people usually think of Asian, the size of the figure would be twice as large as an average human being to express the over-empowering characteristics of the figure.
There would be a two-meter base beneath the figure of Empress Wu, and the figure itself would be made of bronze. Empress Wu would be wearing a heavy traditional garment on the head to represent sovereignty. Her eyes would be glaring at a far distance into the sky, showing how almighty she is. I am proposing a monument to honor Monica Helms; she is a trans activist and the creator of the transgender flag.
A plaque would explain her significance. I deliberately want it to be a simple, classical-style statue to subvert the notion that the only people who get monuments of them are old white men.
The vast majority of traditional, permanent monuments are dedicated to old white men, and even though there has been a recent effort to include people in different communities, almost all of the monuments across the country are still old white men. There are incredibly few monuments dedicated to women, and even less dedicated to women of color. The monument dedicated to Marsha P.
Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be the first monument of transgender people in the U. We need to recognize and memorialize activists while they are alive for supporting their communities and doing history-changing work for and within them.
I feel as if I could have been so much more confident now if I had been taught or saw within art, history, or pop culture that I should not be ashamed of or even sacred of sex. But instead, I was afraid of what a man might think of me or do to me. I felt like I was not allowed to be accepting of my body. I needed to hide it. So, I decided to design a monument that would honor the thing I always thought I needed to hide away: sex.
More specifically, I wanted to honor those who were involved in sex work. The Aphrodite of Knidos fourth century CE was the first statue to represent the female nude, and it conflicted with the containment of the women in Greek culture.
The Aphrodite of Knidos opens herself up to voyeurism in order to allow her female viewers to tap into the same sexual power that she evokes while also having power over male desire. This power is similar to that of sex workers, yet the attitudes toward the Aphrodite of Knidos and the attitudes of those involved in sex work differ greatly in society. Firstly, I wanted to create a model of the nude body, however, I also wanted to be inclusive to many body types and to the fact that not all sex workers are women.
So, I turned to photo collage in order to construct a body containing different aspects in order to involve as many different types of the nude as possible. I envisioned the collage to be life-size meaning that it would stand at about six feet or seven feet and at eye level, so people would be able to get as close as possible to it.
Additionally, there would be a neon light outline of a red umbrella hanging on top of the collage. The red umbrella not only is the sex worker symbol, but it also signifies protection for the body from elements that wish to harm it and the red color signifies love. The neon light would also be visible at night allowing for the art installation to not be forgotten.
Plus, at night I envision there to be affirmations or words of self-love projected on the collage, in the hope that it would inspire people to view their bodies in a positive light.
Lastly, I would encase the collage and the neon umbrella in a glass box to symbolize the invisible boundary that separates sex workers and their nudity from the praise that is given to nudity in high art like the Aphrodite of Knidos. I would like to propose a monument built for the MeToo survivors and supporters.
This monument would not only represent the brave survivors, but also give strength to other victims still struggling. Instead of making the monument about a certain historical figure, I wanted to create an opportunity for all the courageous survivors to be represented.
At first, when looking at posters for the MeToo movement there was an image that stood out to me: three raised fists of different people of color with red nail polish.
The raised first, a symbol of solidarity and support, is an image closely related to the Black Power Movement. With that in mind, I decided to create a monument of a raised hand. The hand will be on top of a black marble platform and have a plaque that gives information about the MeToo movement.
The monument will have an interactive portion by informing people on the plaque that they can put their name through a website accessed through a QR code, where people will be able to input their name on the screen and ask to donate to support the MeToo movement. I am hoping that this monument will bring more awareness to the sexual violence and harassment people go through every day.
As a global pandemic upends every aspect of life, it is natural to dive into the history books and explore how humans of the past survived and moved beyond their own plagues.
One harrowing case is the Plague of Athens, a medical disaster that occured around BCE and was responsible for the death of approximately 75, to , Athenians, or one-third of the population. What we know about that pandemic today is largely because of Thucydides, a Greek historian who survived the disease and chronicled the major event of his lifetime, a decades long battle between Athens and Sparta, in the eight volumes that make up The Peloponnesian War. The time has come for caretakers particularly those who identify as female to be remembered for their courageous endurance.
It may be too late to personally thank the women of fifteenth century Athens, but as another plague terrorizes our world, New York City is in need of a memorial that recognizes and celebrates the health care heroes among us. I propose that we honor the dedicated nurses of NYU Langone, a hospital that treats hundreds of Covid patients daily, currently working tirelessly, often placing the health of their patients above their own.
We were the ones that answered the call. The monument will only feature these words in simple black font, allowing for it to be displayed at all times. I was inspired to create this monument after watching a video of an Asian-American healthcare worker, Dr. I designed this monument to honor Dr. The City of New York has been deeply affected by the current Coronavirus pandemic, and those working in this time of crisis are in dire need of more resources to sustain themselves and stay safe.
The system currently in place does not allow these workers to take the utmost precaution, maintain their livelihoods, and keep their families safe. I have chosen to memorialize these front line workers, more specifically grocery store workers, to give them presence in a space which has seemed to have otherwise forgotten about them, their contributions, and their rights.
The bags will look like regular grocery bags, but will be made out of sustainable fabric and will have comfortable straps attached. To have art as the design for these bags is important to me, as artists are workers who are also having to defend their livelihoods in this pandemic, and to give a voice to artists who soothe the world through their representations is almost like a no-brainer.
All of these actions will promote the idea that grocery store workers are not only essential, but should be treated as such. The bags will first be distributed with three different patterns and as the popularity grows, so will the designs with help from those submitting their own designs. In the face of international suffering due to the coronavirus epidemic arise those who keep society running as functionally as possible: essential workers doing mail, food, and medicine delivery, among other necessary products.
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