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"I Am..."

Picture
“I Am...” consists of multiple 30” x 24” black-edged frames, with engraved name(s) of victims murdered from hate or racially motivated crimes in the United States and the year of their death on the front pane of clear acrylic.  The name(s) and year sits at the bottom edge of an oval, with the white portrait mat resting over a mirror-like black acrylic. When the viewer stands in front of the frame, they can see their own reflection in the black acrylic within the portrait oval, above the name(s) of the victims. My intentions are to memorialize the identities of the past murdered victims so they are not forgotten and, with the viewer’s reflection placed within the frame above the name(s), it acknowledges the victim’s absence. The viewer become part of the artwork, thus bridging the past and present together.  Their reflection also implicates them as the next possible victim, suggesting that such crimes can happen to anyone.
  

Picture
Raymond Yellow Thunder 1972, Vincent Chin 1982
PictureRaul & Brisenia Flores 2009, Trayvon Martin 2012


Ongoing list of names of victims included in "I Am..." thus far, as of July 2013  (of names included, and planned to be included). Sadly, this list does not include many, many other victims murdered by hatred and prejudice.

Thank You to The Puffin Foundation for awarding me a grant to add more frames to this project (June 2013). 
Link to the webpage for my project "I Am..." at The Puffin Foundation.  http://www.puffinfoundation.org/grantees/artists/660-horiuchi-barbara.html


Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley 1963
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner  1964
Charles  Moore,  Henry Dee  1964
Raymond Yellow Thunder  1972
Vincent Chin  1982
Brian Mock, Hattie Mae Cohens  1992
Brandon Teena  1993
James Byrd Jr.  1998
Matthew Shepard  1998
Joseph Ileto  1999
Won-Joon Yoon 1999
Gary Matson, Winfield Mowder 1999
Arthur “J.R.” Warren  2000
Ali Almansoop  2001
Waquar Hassan  2001
Vasudev Patel  2001
Abdo Ali Ahmed  2001
Balbir Singh Sodhi  2001
Adel Karas  2001
Ali W. Ali  2002
Gwen Araujo  2002
Sakia Gunn  2003
Bang Mai 2004
Pedro Corzo 2004
Michael Roberts 2005
Cheryl Green 2006
Michael Sandy 2006
Miguel Vega  2006
Norris Gaynor  2006
Du Doan  2007
Steve Domer  2007
Satender Singh 2007
Lawrence King  2008
Luis Ramirez  2008
Raul Flores, Brisenia Flores  2009
Juan Varela   2010
Jose Sucuzhanay  2010
James Craig Anderson  2011
Johnny Lee Butts  2011
Trayvon Martin  2012
Sunando Sen 2012
Alfred Wright 2013


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  • About
  • News
  • I Am...
  • Ink on Metal
  • Installations
  • Ink on Paper
  • Fire/Soot on Metal
  • Performance
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  • Blog
  • Written Work
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  • Contact