Memory Project: An art installation by Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman
Thanks for your ...
Thanks for your comments! We have a new video up on youtube showing how we used The Memory Project at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in NY. What a wonderful experience we all had! The sophomores learned about the Holocaust, about their families and each other and created amazing artwork. Roz
This was so ...
This was so beautifully done and so moving.
Roz and Laurie, ...
Roz and Laurie, your video is fantastic! - the perfect blend of narrative, process, art, philosophy, humanity, life, loss, re-finding, love .... The way you tell the story over Roz's shoulder, combining her images as they come to life on the canvas in front of her (and us) with the sound of her voice as she ponders her mother's past through a single photograph of the little brother is incredibly powerful! Bravo!!
Thank you for this ...
Thank you for this superb creation. Words cannot express its magnitude.
How to approach the ...
How to approach the Holocaust, a subject to which many of us have become inured, in a fresh light, so that its significance is conveyed and renewed? Laurie Weisman and Roz Jacbos have done it with this video and the Memory Project. Art is the medium as they transform a woman's memory and her photograph of a lost relative, a boy, into a grid of portrait variations emerging simultaneously as his story is told. Loss and recovery come together; memory transfigured through art. -Jud Newborn,Ph.D.
this is an amazing ...
this is an amazing video--I have seen the installation in person and it is even more moving in real life. It is unfortunately a familiar story of relatives looking for one another during and after ww2 but to my knowledge it has never been articulated in this way--with the use of memory shared and learned and the "relocating" the lost person through art. it is really brilliant