Hurricane Katrina Memorial

On a Wednesday in early February of 2006 I was asked by a producer of Extreme Makeover, Home Edition to fly to Biloxi to take part in the building of a Hurricane Katrina Memorial. The ABC channel TV show, asked me to create a sculptural time capsule made up of hurricane related objects. I was flown out on Sunday night. On Monday morning we started receiving objects from the public. By Wednesday at noon I had finished the piece and the unveiling occurred several hours later. This was an amazing experience and an opportunity that I just had to take. The harrowing stories I heard will stay with me forever. Here are some links and images of the project.

www.biloxi.ms.us/katrina_and_Biloxi/Katr ina_Memorial.html

And the article that was on the AP wire. "http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hu rricane/2006-02-15-katrina-memorial_x.ht m">www.usatoday.com/weather/hurr icane/2006-02-15-katrina-mem...

Hopefully this television program will keep the nations' collective
eye on the disaster recovery effort. Based on the destruction that I
saw it will be decades before Biloxi is normal again. Take care.

6 months after the hurricane and there was still a sense that this had just haappened. There was a barge as big as 3 football fields sitting up against a museum, houses flattened, giant metal containers looking like they had been crumpled up into a ball and virtually the only thing operating was a casino and the health clinic.

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items are from between 07 Feb 2006 & 15 Feb 2006.