Questions, questions...

You'll find here the photos I took during our visit to Eastern State y'day. Very evocative…and troubling.
So much to think through (for me as a Quaker, especially....), about a vision gone wrong in so many ways…

I didn't take any photos during the mural tour, though--in part because I found it hard to see, and assumed I could find better images on-line than I could take from the trolley. But there's lots more I'd like to discuss about that whole experience--from what it means to ride around on a trolley through poor neighborhoods (while being urged to "wave @ everyone!"); through getting off the trolley and viewing murals, while the neighbors are making music across the street; to what it really means to "make art that represents a community."

I'm hoping that Jody, Sarah and Uninhibited will be able tell us something about the process that went into making the mural about women's education, which they helped to create in the first 360°. I attended one of the early concepting sessions; saw Jody, Sarah and Jomaira and Sharaai posed @ work on the front page of the Alumnae Bulletin...

heard the finished project celebrated on the evening news; and used photographs I had taken of the mural to invite you all "behind the walls" of our own 360°. But now, fresh on the heels of our (somewhat problematice?) "restorative justice" mural tour, I'm curious to know much more about what the decision-making process like: How was the site selected? How was the design decided on? What "voices" were heard, what was "silenced," in creating this particular "vision"?

Looking forward to learning....