Art Installations at the CAC
Vestiges Window Detail
The VESTIGES Project
Think Tanks
St. Joseph Street Windows: Photolightwork Installation by Debra Howell & Jan Gilbert entitled Waterwords 2006
This Vestiges Think Tanks Project is part of the post-Katrina recovery effort. For more info see: www.vestigesthinktank.org
Waterwords
A photolightwork collaborative installation by Debra Howell & Jan Gilbert 2006
This "Katrina Pictionary" plays on the linguistic phenomenon in which a word’s importance in a culture is reflected in the number of variations of it that exist in the cultural lexicon. The possible result of whiling away the hours of, say, an evacuation by playing parlour games, these "pages" of waterwords and images mimic both the traditional game of "Pictionary" and the somewhat sillier game whereby you are required to insert the words "in bed" after every statement made by the players. Here, the game addresses the flood-related losses of so many with the hope of softening the sorrows with wordplay and image.
