What I am working on while I am here is an important part of the memory of the land in California. It is a monument to Cesar Chavez the founder of the United Farm Workers. The monument will contain six tile murals that commemorate Chavez not as a heroic man in the way fallen soldiers are commemorated all over the U.S., as bronze statues in parks but instead through a memorial to his beliefs. I have designed a Mayan Corbelled arch combined with mission colonial niches as the triumphant arch in the Cesar Chavez plaza with floor patterns that commemorate his marches and fasts which were critical to his activism in behalf of the working conditions of campesino agricultural workers.
Monday, August 4, 2008
My work: The Cesar Chavez Monument in San Jose Ca.
What I am working on while I am here is an important part of the memory of the land in California. It is a monument to Cesar Chavez the founder of the United Farm Workers. The monument will contain six tile murals that commemorate Chavez not as a heroic man in the way fallen soldiers are commemorated all over the U.S., as bronze statues in parks but instead through a memorial to his beliefs. I have designed a Mayan Corbelled arch combined with mission colonial niches as the triumphant arch in the Cesar Chavez plaza with floor patterns that commemorate his marches and fasts which were critical to his activism in behalf of the working conditions of campesino agricultural workers.
