PIM VAN NUNEN

KITES FOR UVALDE | 2022 | SERIES OF 4

BAMBOO, TWINE, VARIOUS FOUND DROP SHEETS AND CAR COVERS.

19 innocent children killed in time of peace. Some children had just made the honoUr roll. Two of the girls played basketball together on a team called the Spurs. One boy loved soccer and dancing with his brothers at home. The names of those slain by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. emerged in the days after, as the grief-stricken community tried to process what happened. Family and close friends shared a last message for the ones they loved so much. Messages that only mean a lot for who they’re written for. So I created kites to carry some of the messages way up high in the hope they would get close enough for the children to read them. Here’s a kite for Nevaeh Bravo 10, one for Layla Salazar 10 and one for Maranda Mathis 11.