Today Pellissippi has several panels from the Names Project, better known as the “AIDS Quilt” on display in the Goins Building Rotunda. The Names Project is a compelling example of vernacular design using text and image to deliver a simple, emotion-laden message: “Here are thousands of people who led rich and varied lives, but who died from the same terrible thing. Remember them. See their humanity.”
I’m posting today in memory of my cousin Michael Meredith. He was a friend and family member who helped bring the Names Project to his town of Charlotte, NC. It was not easy for him to be an AIDS activist in the South, especially in “Jesse Helms Country.” He later died of AIDS, and now has a square in the quilt himself. I hope that one day AIDS victims will be treated with more compassion.
World AIDS Day
Posted by: opendoordesign | December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment |
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thank you for posting this. it seems like here in tennessee, there are many people who care about this issue. it means alot to see that some people actually care and that there are people trying to do something about it. this issue has been very close to me for a while.
By: DanielH on December 3, 2008
at 1:48 pm
