A Think Tank Requiem November 7, 2009

'ART-IN-ME-MO-RI-AM,' a three-window light-work installation by Kristen Struebing-Beazley, will illuminate the August anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Saint Joseph Street windows of the Contemporary Arts Center. Incorporating backlit text from the poem 'Requiem' by Yusef Komunyakaa set into outlines of double shotgun houses, the work is embellished with motifs relevant to 'Requiem' and the black and white tragedy of the South. Symbolic elements include floating specters and rib cages, unhinged shutters, a galloping surge, classical Bacchus and native Zulu icons and a geometric representation of death in the attic. The windows will transition as the Day of the Dead approaches in early November.