Tuesday 15 July 2014

The Project Starts...

To mark the Centenary of the Halifax Explosion,
award winning Nova Scotia artist Laurie Swim
has undertaken the creation of a monumental art project, titled

Hope and Survival.

To be completed by 2017, the work will include a Scroll of Remembrance, on which the names of the dead, in English and in Braille, will be inscribed. The Braille references the hundreds blinded by the blast, the largest ever before Hiroshima. The Braille dots will consist of beads, sewn by volunteers throughout Nova Scotia.

A series of textile works, created by Laurie, will complete the work.