I Learn to Remember to Not Forget
Laser cut on slate chalkboard, chalk
H. 36 x W. 60"
2023
The year I decided to become a classroom teacher was 1999, the same year as the Columbine school shooting in Colorado. Since that time there have been 392 people killed and 1,119 injured in school settings according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a publication of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).
A school shooting is a traumatic event that can cause both emotional and physical scars. Each of these slate chalkboard panels is laser cut with a phrase spoken by either a student, a teacher or a 911 operator during a school shooting that occurred at one of the following schools: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook, Connecticut (2012) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, (2018) and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas (2022). The laser cut words are covered with chalk dust.
Laser cut on slate chalkboard, chalk
H. 36 x W. 60"
2023
The year I decided to become a classroom teacher was 1999, the same year as the Columbine school shooting in Colorado. Since that time there have been 392 people killed and 1,119 injured in school settings according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a publication of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS).
A school shooting is a traumatic event that can cause both emotional and physical scars. Each of these slate chalkboard panels is laser cut with a phrase spoken by either a student, a teacher or a 911 operator during a school shooting that occurred at one of the following schools: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook, Connecticut (2012) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida, (2018) and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas (2022). The laser cut words are covered with chalk dust.