The Visible Invisible - Temporary Covid 19 Memorial by AMLgMATD

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该装置的设计概念始于2020年秋季，当时美国因Covid-19死亡的人数达到了20万人，这也让设计者萌生了制作纪念碑的想法。到了2021年，死亡人数在年初又增长了一倍，并且看不到结束的迹象。为此，设计团队决定利用被迈阿密当代美术馆（MoCA）提供的契机，创造一个曾一度消失于人们对话中的临时纪念场所。

The concept for the installation came about in the Fall of 2020, when the number of US deaths due to Covid-19 reached the tragic count of 200,000 lives lost. At the time, we felt that there should be a local temporary memorial to this historic milestone. Then in 2021, when the toll doubled by the beginning of the year and with no real end in sight, we decided to use the opportunity given to us by the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, to produce the temporary memorial that was missing from the conversation.

▼项目概览，Overall view © Zachary Balber

在设计者看来，MoCA是最适合展示这项作品的文化机构。它不仅在艺术界享有盛誉，为当地艺术家提供大量支持，更是一个思想和创意的孵化器。在场地调研期间，设计团队很快确定了这就是能让其概念变为现实的最佳地点。MoCA的主院落中栽种着几棵庄严的棕榈树，为作品的展示提供了完美的画布，同时强调了与社区的融合关系。

We cannot think of a better cultural institution to present this work than MoCA in North Miami. Not only is MoCA well known in the art community as being great supporters of local artists, but as an incubator for the development of ideas. We knew during our site visit that we found the right place to make our concept a reality. MoCA’s stately palms in the main courtyard presented the perfect canvas to scale up our concept and address it directly to the community that we are a part of.

▼从院落望向MoCA美术馆入口，View to the entrance of MoCA from its courtyard © Zachary Balber

设计的灵感之一来源于东方文化中常见的一种观念：即被一条红线连接的两人或多人，注定会发生一段不同寻常的故事，且不受时间与场所的限制。在该作品中，相互连接的线代表了构成我们社会结构的个体——它们相互缠结、拉紧或产生摩擦。作为人类，我们经历着相同的环境和相似的苦难，我们因此而靠得更近，也更加需要学会理解彼此。

One of our inspirations were the ideas present in Eastern philosophies where two or more individuals connected by a red thread are destined to share an important story, regardless of time and place. We see these interconnecting lines as the individual threads that weave the fabric of our society, no matter how tangled, stretched, or frayed. As humans, we all are experiencing the same circumstances and similar hardships, hopefully bringing us closer together, with more understanding of one another, no matter our differences.

▼被红色织带连接的棕榈树，The palms connected by red webbing © Zachary Balber

这些位于MoCA院子中的棕榈树被上万英尺的红色织带连接在一起，最终形成一种整体性的联结。每一棵树都代表着人类社会的一个成员，代表着一个失去的爱人，代表着一个离去的灵魂。

We installed tens of thousands of feet of red webbing between the palms in the MoCA court yard. Each palm was connected to its neighboring palm and that palm to the next, until they were all intertwined and woven together. Each palm was standing in for a member of the human community, a lost loved one, a departed soul.

▼棕榈树形成一种整体性的联结，Th palms were all intertwined and woven together © Zachary Balber

作品被命名为“有形的无形”，其意图是让社区和参观者在看到棕榈树之间的物理联系时，同时也感受到我们彼此之间的无形连接。虽然一开始可能并不明显，但我们每个人的行为都会直接或间接地影响他人。我们应当努力地去维护这张看不见的“织网”，让彼此之间的联系牢不可破。

With the title of the work being “The Visible Invisible,” we loved for the community and those visiting to see the physical connections we created among the palms as the invisible connection we have with one another. Even though it may not be obvious at first, one’s actions directly and indirectly affect others. We ought to keep the shared fabric of our stories strong and the hidden bond we all have to one another unbreakable.

▼细部，Detailed view © Zachary Balber

▼一个纪念性的场所，A memorial in the courtyard © Zachary Balber

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Project size: 10000 ft2
Completion date: 2021
Design team: AMLgMATD
Photographer: Zachary Balber (https://zacharybalber.com/)

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