Volunteer Installing Name Banners

For installation of the work, I used social media and word of mouth to get help from the community. Even with many hands, the installation took a full three days. Volunteers did not need to register. They would just show up whenever they had time and would drive in the wooden stakes, string the twine, and attach the name banners. In 2017, help came from over an 80 km (50-mile) radius thanks to an early TV news report asking people to volunteer.
Each row contained 350 names which had to be individually attached. The banners were made of Tyvek. Using an over-sized paper-cutter, I cut the banners one at a time from a roll of Tyvek., producing banners 5 cm x 56 cm (2 inches x 22 inches). In 2018, I hand-cut over seven thousand banners for the 6,936 names which were hung by date of death, starting at #1 in Row 1 and ending at 6,936 at the end of Row 20.
The artwork was free and open to the public twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week, for two weeks in 2017 and one week in 2018. Amazingly, even though there was no fence or security, no one vandalized the piece either year.
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