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Helène Aylon - The Earth Ambulance: '82 - '92 - '02 and
The Bridge of Knots
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On June 12, 1982, the day of the mass disarmament rally at the U.N., the Earth-filled pillowcases were carried on army stretchers down the steps of Ralphe Bunche Park across the street from the U.N. The earths from the 12 S.A.C. bases were emptied into 12 six foot transparent boxes – a geological exhibit of the varied colors, textures and moisture content indigenous to the area each came from. On July 4, 1982, the emptied pillowcases – torn and stained from their earthly contents, were hung on a clothesline along the trees at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza – spanning 47th Street between 1st-2nd Avenues.
On July 4, 1983, the pillowcases would be hung again at the UN, where women from France and Holland joined Aylon, camping for 14 days and nights on the sidewalks of the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. The cases were then brought to the Women’s Peace Camp in Romulus, NY. and hung on the fence around the Seneca Army Depot, New York.
In August, 1995, to recall the 50th Anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cross-country pillowcases (as well as the Soviet and Japanese pillowcases that Aylon had collected in the Soviet Union* and in Japan**) were hung in long knotted lines over the exterior facade of the University Art Museum in Berkeley- the city of their origin. All of the pillowcases had traveled to The Berkeley Museum from Creative Time: Art in the Anchorage, where they hung above The Earth Ambulance ‘92, an ambulance filled with seeds in celebration of the end of the Cold War.
Now, this millennium ambulance with its interior meditation space and its blank pillowcases – not yet written upon - resonates with past, present and future dreams. Viewers are invited to sit inside The Earth Ambulance ‘82 - ‘92 - ‘02.
New York Times Review of the Earth Ambulance Installation: Magic Ambulance Seeks To End Warfare
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