Up

installed on Moreland Avenue, Atlanta
2011, painted wood, 10′ x 1′

 

 

In 2011, Flux Projects sponsored a sculptural installtion by Charlie Brouwer, Rise Up, at Freedom Park overlooking Moreland Avenue near the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. To create the project, the artist asked area residents to donate or loan ladders, including handmade ladders. John Morse created a handmade ladder painted in staggered black and white, a reference to both race relations and a strand of DNA, the common thread of humanity. In May 2013, Upwas repaired, repainted and returned to Atlanta’s Moreland Avenue near the intersection of Confederate Avenue, approximately three miles south of its original debut.