For my first memorial proposal, I am thinking of using it as a dedication to girls with low self-esteem. Although insecurity is not assigned to any specific gender, this installation is based on my past experience of insecurity and how it has affected me. I want to have this “tombstone” of the girl I used to be in middle school and the first three years of high school. I notice that, unfortunately, most girls develop low self-esteem at a young age because the standards displayed in media are often confusing as to how a girl should act and physically look. In my experience, the media plays a huge part into my past insecurities (especially when searching “beauty” on Google Images only to find mainly women not of color). I wanted to work with barbed wire and mirrors because self-confidence and insecurity start and end with the reflection in a mirror. The barbed wire represents the strong and painful hold that insecurity as on a person. The installation should be located in the Great Lawn in Central Park where anyone can feel free to interact with the piece.

For my second memorial proposal, I want to memorialize how clean and organized my room used to be before I got lazy. The setting should be an indoor setting– preferably a room in the MoMA– and staged bedroom with everything perfectly neat and clean. Next to it, there should be a picture of the clean bedroom and a plaque that should read “destroy me for 15 seconds”. The viewer would have 15 seconds to do as much damage to the bedroom as seen fit then leave for the next viewer to destroy the piece. Right outside the door are options of toilet paper, small paint buckets, piles of clothes, and liquids that cause painful-to-remove stains to deface the neat room. For protection, the participants would have to wear provided safety goggles, ponchos, and gloves.