Saturday, November 15, 2014

LIVING WITH HURRICANES: KATRINA AND BEYOND -4

A POIGNANT EXHIBIT AT THE PRESBYTERE ON JACKSON SQUARE IN NEW ORLEANS




Katrina and Beyond is largely uncensored.

Its visitors experience death, destruction, total loss.

One man’s daily diary, written on what’s left of his home,  drops the F-bomb and other uncomely words.

Thank goodness the exhibit didn’t censor his raw emotions.

Let’s be honest, 10 year old kids hear the most vulgar of words on the school playground.

So certainly, their eyes and ears can take some unsavory words in the context of hurricane survivors who do not know where their loved ones, pets and cherished belongings are.

Denial is a terrible roadblock to true physical, mental and spiritual healing.

Katrina and Beyond does not deny any of the unimaginable waves of suffering that its victims and survivors endured.

With all its vivid imagery, unvarnished truths and xxx, Katrina and beyond is one of the most triumphant museum displays created.

It is powerful  and, ultimately, transcendent.



 

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