Transparent Skyway Wrap Tells A Life Story

摘要

Every picture tells a story, and a series of transparent 10 by 13-foot photographs installed in the windows of a Minneapolis, Minn., skyway (enclosed pedestrian bridge] tell stories of homes left behind and new lives claimed. "Speaking of Home," a temporary art installation by Nancy Ann Coyne, transforms the glass-and-steel skyway over a major downtown intersection into a light box peopled with the faces of 23 immigrants and their families. Coyne wanted the black-and-white photographs printed on sheer scrim banner fabric to be "motionless and too big to ignore." Text from in-depth interviews describes immigrants' reasons for leaving their native lands and building new homes in America.