Posted on 07/06/2017 11:32:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s no denying the first half of 2017 would have been very different had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. In her current St. Louis gallery exhibition, artist Bunny Burson remembers the future that very nearly was, creating an artwork using the iridescent confetti that was primed to go off on election night this past November 8, had the country elected its first woman president.
A longtime Clinton devotee, Burson was the executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities under President Bill Clinton’s administration. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, she hopes her art will help motivate women to run for office in 2018.
“I was among her supporters at the Javits Center waiting for the symbolic shattering of the glass ceiling and the shard like confetti to fall down on us. We left the Javits Center at 2 in the morning with profound emptiness,” Burson told NBC. The unused confetti had to be removed from the air cannons and swept into empty boxes by workers.
“I wanted to fill that emptiness with hope by giving voice to my feelings that even in defeat, Hillary’s confetti could be used to inspire the next generations of little girls and young women to dream big and to act on their dreams,” she added.
Tracking down the unused confetti was no easy task. Burson made calls to Arkansas, Boston, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, and Washington, DC. Though many warned her the confetti she sought had likely wound up in the trash, Burson’s quest was ultimately successful.
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After about two weeks of searching, she tracked down the confetti in Chicago and was able to acquire several large boxes of it—200 pounds, to be exact—for her work.
Burson’s sculpture, titled And Still I Rise, takes its title from the Maya Angelou book of poetry of the same name. Pieces of clear, shiny confetti swirl around in the gallery window, which has essentially been transformed into a political snow globe. The work’s title is printed on the glass in white block letters. The colorless confetti was chosen for its resemblance to shards of broken glass, to represent the breaking of the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” as Clinton referred to a woman someday winning the presidency.
For Burson, the artwork is more than just a message of hope, but a call to action in the face of Trump administration policies. “We need to think about all of these rights that we have sort of gotten used to, which we may not always have—women’s rights, voting rights,” she told St. Louis Public Radio. “Elections have consequences, serious consequences… we need to stay engaged.”
The piece is displayed 24 hours a day in the gallery’s front window, overlooking Forsythe Boulevard.
should be called “and Still I Cries”.
Confetti, check and accounted for.
So what happened to her boat load of fireworks?
colorless confetti ...
How fitting. Colorless, like the candidate.
I still want to see the video
of Hillary throwing chunks of cake
at the wall
I want to create a sculpture from broken lamps and ashtrays...”Wrath of Rodham”
I want to create a sculpture from broken lamps and ashtrays...”Wrath of Rodham”
The butt-hurt is so strong for this woman, she should just put a tube of Prep H on display and call it art.
Think PPIAPS. Planned Parenthood in a Pants Suit.
Lemme get this straight, this woman called 6 different states to find “The” confetti that was swept up? And she found “The” paper confetti 800 miles away all boxed up and ready to go?
I call BS.
My gut tells me she took whatever donations she got for her journey to Chicago and spent it on top shelf vodka OR she ran into the best dam confetti salesman in the Midwest.
That just put a smile on my face, all over again ;-)
Rat tears.
And this is why modern art sucks, because it only served The Party as propaganda.
“I wanted to fill that emptiness with hope by giving voice to my feelings that even in defeat, Hillary’s confetti could be used to inspire the next generations of little girls and young women to dream big and to act on their dreams,” she added.
Why didn’t Sarah “that b-, that c-, yadda yadda” Palin’s defeat carry a similar message to inspire the next generations of little girls and young women to dream big and act on their dreams?
Conservative women are bitch slapped into submission by Democrats at every turn in art, academia, and media.
I hadn’t heard about that. Just the inconsolable cries.
Two weeks later, no less.
Was there a scratch and dent sale on the bunting as well?
“Hillary’s confetti could be used to inspire the next generations of little girls and young women to dream big”
Couldn’t studying the lives of Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, etc., accomplish the same thing? But I guess that confetti doomed for the trashcan might be more effective in the loopy world of liberals.
A monument to Hillary’s loss.
“That just put a smile on my face, all over again ;-) “
Me, too. I just got the urge to click on a few links of my election porn and get my day off to a good start. Nothing like a few gut-busting laughs to set the tone for a Friday.
It’s so amusing to watch the democrats try to get a do-over on the 2016 election. From recycling “artifacts” from the abandoned celebration to the endless shrieks of “impeach!!” to the mainstream media’s interviewing their messiah as if she mattered one whit. They cannot accept the hard, fundamental truth: A deeply flawed candidate ignored massive swaths of voters in favor of special interest groups and her own self-aggrandizement.
Maybe they will run her again in three years. Maybe they’ll actually find a candidate whose qualifications exceed “it’s my turn / it’s my right.” But no matter what, all they are doing right now is spinning their wheels in fifth gear and show no signs of stopping.
So. Much. WINNING!!!
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