Inspiration.
JR’s commemorative murals draw inspiration directly from historic photographs from Ellis Island’s hospital archives. From broken windowpanes to peeling, whitewashed walls, young, bonneted children stare longingly while eager nurses crowd together with nervous expectancy. Through these ghostly group portraits, the haunting hospital’s framework is becomes a visual, visceral lesson in national history.
About?
The Project Unframed is about many stories that happened in the Hospital.
Unframed, An immigrant family views the Statue of Liberty from the Ellis Island Immigration Station dock revu par JR, courtesy of National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument, U.S.A, 2014
Unframed, Doctors and nurses performing surgery in an operating room in the Ellis Island Main Hospital revu par JR, courtesy of National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument & National Archives, U.S.A., 2014
Site specific
The site is need to be hospital because the photographs from Ellis Island’s hospital archives. After long traveling, people would get sick, so they have to go to hospital.
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