Simon Popper's stacks of alphabetised copies of Ulysses.
Reminds me of the memorial in Washington to American soldiers who died in the Vietnam war. The assumption had been that the names of the soldiers would go on in alphabetical order, for how else would families be able to find the names of the men they’d lost? But how horrible it would have been for the Smith family to find their dad’s name lost in a sea of other Smiths.
The designer chose instead to order the names chronologically by date of death. Soldiers who died together are listed together.
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Date: 2006-05-16 11:42 am (UTC)Reminds me of the memorial in Washington to American soldiers who died in the Vietnam war. The assumption had been that the names of the soldiers would go on in alphabetical order, for how else would families be able to find the names of the men they’d lost? But how horrible it would have been for the Smith family to find their dad’s name lost in a sea of other Smiths.
The designer chose instead to order the names chronologically by date of death. Soldiers who died together are listed together.