Windows at Harvard
via Window at Harvard:
While many within the Harvard community are separated from the physical campus and some of our buildings are empty, this exhibition aims to enliven and fill those spaces with large-scale displays of art.
Windows of Harvard will provide an opportunity to connect our community by “virtually visiting” our beloved campus through the online presentation of remarkable installations in our campus windows. Those still residing and working on campus are acutely feeling the absence of student, friends and colleagues; so, too, are those learning and working remotely. This display intends to close that distance by providing the unique reciprocal experience that is the creation and appreciation of art. While future plans may be uncertain, this exhibition aims to bring the Harvard community together in the present moment to remind us of the beauty that endures.
Featured Works
The two works I have featured are visualizations of two Sticky Note to Self posts I created as I was departing Harvard to shelter-in-place in the midst of the pandemic. The first “Hope Is All” emotes a sense loss and longing upon the face of a man whose face is masked as he reflects, “Hope is all many of will have left.” The latter, “Go the Social Distance,” reads the following poetic pondering:
How do we belong
Now that we’re apart?
The distance won’t be long
If we each play our part.
Each of these works join others from across the Harvard community as they are displayed above entrances at the Harvard Smith Campus Center. The Windows at Harvard exhibit will display May 12–June 30, 2020.
