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Pink houses new orleans6/22/2023 The horizon behind her is formed by the pale band of the infamous levee, essentially a long concrete wall, now rebuilt twice as thick and twice as high as its predecessor, and with basic precautions against undermining that weren't there before. On 29 August 2005, the spot where Debra is now sitting was one of the worst places to be on earth. Low-income housing? Narcissism and charity are often close companions, perhaps inevitably, but would Make It Right be more a case of the former or the latter? And, in the aftermath of the Haiti and Chile earthquakes, are there any lessons from New Orleans for rebuilding there? What would "our great architectural minds", whose work is usually to design luxury items such as iconic museums and private villas, know about the hard practicalities of sustainable How much would it really be about helping victims of Katrina, and how much would it be about making Pitt feel and look good? What would the star of The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button truly know about urban regeneration? It was a heroic project, and one that raised questions. He had spent time in their studios, especially Gehry's, trying his hand at designing buildings himself. He befriended the likes of Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid. These were stirring words, born of a celebrity's stricken social conscience but also of the love of architecture Pitt had displayed before Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005. We would engage and rely on the community to define the function of their neighbourhood and adhere to their guidance, protecting New Orleans's rich culture." If the people of the Lower Ninth had been betrayed by professionals, by the engineers whose levees had failed in over 50 places, if "the most sickening thought is that this all could have been avoided", Pitt's mission was to "take what was wrong and make it right". "We'd call upon some of our great architectural minds to innovate these solutions," he said, and create "a template that could be replicated at the macro level. We'd create new jobs in the process and we wouldn't stop until we could achieve all of this affordably." To show he was serious he moved his family home to New Orleans, and joined in long and gritty community meetings about the best way forward. Its aim is not only to rebuild at least 150 homes in the spot worst hit by the storm and its floods but to "turn tragedy into victory", as the actor put it, and to "offer a more humane building standard… We would create homes that were sustainable and build with clean building materials for a just quality of life… We would build for safety and storm resiliency. For this spot is the location of Make It Right, the project launched by Pitt in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to which he has pledged $5m. Now, with 23 houses newly built, it remains a circus, a vortex of disaster and celebrity from which media and sightseers can't stay away. He was referring to the Pink Project, an "art installation/political messaging device/fundraising tool" in 2007, when hundreds of pink fabric house-shapes were scattered about the site, ghosts of houses that had been and which would return. I have work in numerous private collections around the world.Brad Pitt had warned residents of New Orleans's Lower Ninth ward that "we would be turning their neighbourhood into a circus". Coffee, Downtown Gallery, Sneaky Pickle, The Tigermans Den, The Kirschmens Art Space at NOCCA, The Hubbell Branch Library in New Orleans, The Contemporary Art Center (CAC), and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. I've showcased my work at Royal House Gallery, St. My work has been showcased on online photography blogs such as featured in "The French Quarterly", have pieces on display at The Catahoula Hotel and the NOPSI Hotel. The art I create from this point forward will borrow from the best from the past, with inspiration from today, to become contemporary artworks that are a unique combination of the two. It begins with slicing my photographs into strips, working them back together and framing them in frames (you guessed it) that I also make myself. This has lead me to make weavings from my photographs. More recently I've been exploring making photographs by hand. Experimental photographic practices such as double exposures, shooting with expired film, & hand tinted photographs have all inspired and interested me. I deem myself more an artist than that of a traditional photographer and have always been interested in alternative image making processes. Since I can remember I have always been fascinated with the mechanics of cameras, their operation, and their ability to capture. Artist + Vincente Weber Follow this artistįor me, art and photography have always gone hand in hand.
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