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Natural disasters
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Disaster Area: Japan Tsunami
Three signs painted with yellow words on black material and supported by separate steal poles. The first sign is topped with a metal addition painted with: "2011 EARTHQUAKE 04" and a reflector strip painted "3/11/011." The remainder of the sign reads: "TSUNAMI / 9-0 JAPAN / DIED- / 2 NUCLEAR PLANTS / MELTDOWN AND ROD / CRY TO GOD FIRST FOR / HIS HEALING HAND GOD / LOVE ALL HIS CHILDREN / HUMAN FAMILY / COME TOGETHER LOVE PEACE." The second sign reads: "PSALM / 67 / 1 GOD BE / MERCIFUL UNTO / US AND BLESS US AND / CAUSE HIS FACE TO SHINE / UPON US SELAH / 2 THAT THY WAY MAY bE / KNOWN UPON EARTH / THY SAVING HEALTH / AMONG ALL /NATIONS." The third sign is topped with a metal addition painted with: "EARTHQUAKE 04" and a reflector strip painted "12 26." The remainder of the sign reads, in fading lettering: "TSUNAMI / SOUTH ASIA / DIED - AFRICA / MATTHEW 24:7 / 7 FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAI- / NST NATION. KINGDOM AGAINST / KINGDOM AND THERE SHALL BE / FAMINE AND PESTILENCES AND / EARTHQUAKE IN PLACE/ DIVERS." On the ground below the first two signs is an arrangement of broken concrete of different sizes, on top of which are placed five vertical red bricks. Additional bricks and concrete pavers line the front of the structure. Around the third sign are piles plastic baby dolls, horses, and sharks, along with jars of shells and metal rods. A television set is part of this grouping on the back of which is painted: "GOD / FORGIVE US / WE PRAISE YOU / SAVE US / THY CHILDREN." -
Disaster Area: Indian Ocean Tsunami
A black plastic board, resembling a surfboard, is attached horizontally to a wooden pole and supporting wooden fence structures. On this board is painted: "TSUNAMI - 12/26/04 / GOD FORGIVE US SAVE US / DIED AFRICA." The top of the pole is wound with chain, supporting a horizontal wooden board whose painted words are faded, as well as two aluminum crutches. A hubcap is attached to the top of one of these crutches. -
Disaster Area: Hurricane Katrina
A long metal wire grate leans against a tall leaning wire edifice that encloses toy helicopters, hubcaps, a rubber chicken, several balls, a baby doll, flip flops, and many pieces of wood, and inside of which grows a shrub. On the wire grate is fastened four license plates to make a column (two from Louisiana, one from Mississippi, and one from Florida) along with a large metal sign that reads "OUT" upon which is painted "LEVEL [levee sic] GAVE 2005 / ARMY CORPS OF ENGiNEER / 9TH WARD / NEW ORLEANS / WHY?." In the front of the sculpture on the ground is a broken pink tricycle. -
Disaster Area: Hurricane Sandy
A complex assemblage that consists of a large rectangle of corrugated sheet metal upon which is painted in black and yellow outline a labelled map of states along the East Coast from North Carolina to Maine. The sheet is elevated on multiple layers of bricks and concrete blocks covered with hay and it rests on a vertically positioned wire box spring. A long piece of wood juts out from the springs towards the viewer, and flexible PVC pipes are looped and twisted throughout. Two poles reach towards the skies, both topped with crutches, one topped with a hubcap. Two rectangles of plywood rest nearby, their yellow lettering now faded and indiscernible.