The first official outdoor exhibition on Washington D.C.'s National Mall showcases six artists whose monuments honor American stories missing from the heart of the country's capitol.
' bronze bell tower plays"My Country 'Tis of Thee." But the bells stop tolling right before the end. Visitors must pull a lever to play the final note.
"The piece is simply saying, America is not America without you as an active citizen," Ramírez Jonas says."It needs you in some way."."I think about how in this country, we're bursting at the seams with grief, with loss," he says."We don't always have a place to put it.
Some visitors to the Mall may not think of these deaths as a defining national tragedy that pulls us together as Americans. This monument asks: Why not? Crowley, a professor of religion, illuminates how Black gospel music and the blues can be traced to the Muslim prayers of ancestors taken from Africa."If you did not have that sonic practice of prayer, you wouldn't have the blues," he says."And you wouldn't have gospel music.
From above, the monument spells out the Arabic word"amin," which means 'let this prayer be accepted,'" Crawley says.A.J. Mitchell
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