[INSERT HISTORY HERE] Plaques Gallery
2006, Mixed Media
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Canal Area
San Rafael, California, USA
March 2007
Submitted by John Stewart
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This plaque is placed at the beginning of "The Canal" a neighborhood in San Rafael California. Tucked behind a retail shopping area and industrial warehouses, the area remains secluded and largely invisible to most of the city’s other residents. The numbers denote how this invisible “border” separates the inversely proportionate racial and class makeup on either side. The Canal contains a substantial portion of the affordable housing available to the Mexican and Central American immigrant communities in Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in the United States. |
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Tanforan Mall
San Bruno, California, USA
December 2006
Submitted by David Yun
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These plaques were installed at Tanforan Mall, a site where thousands of Japanese Americans were interned during World War II when a horse racetrack sat on this site. The plaques serve as a reminder of this history for mall goers. |
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Garfield Park
San Francisco, California, USA
December 2006
Submitted by Jen Sethasang
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Garfield Park is the traditional ending point for the annual Dia de los Muertes parade in the Mission District. This plaque is a proclimation of Jen's own internal conflict about photographing this event and a comment on the lack of engagement with the acutal cultural specificities of the event on the part of the crowd. |
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Twin Peaks
San Francisco, California, USA
December 2006
Submitted by Jen Sethasang
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Sethasang installed a plaque at Twin Peaks, a popular tourist lookout point in San Francisco. Twin Peaks also happened to be a location where her and an ex-lover frequented. This plaque is an open letter to this ex with whom she has lost touch. |
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