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Design for Paine Memorial, Chile

The citizens of Paine not only actively participated in the process of creating the memorial, they helped to design and build it. Over the course of a year, a group of government-financed artists worked with the families of the disappeared or dead to design the site. They chose to replace each missing “tree” with a mosaic, which the artists taught the families themselves how to create; together, they implemented the designs.

“My dad would be very proud of our mosaic: we’re showing the good part of who he was, not the sadness that remains with us,” one family participant said.

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References

Rodriguez, Carmen. "A memory of Paine." New Internationalist 385 (December 2005): 8.

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