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Art and data

April 1, 2019 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Art and data

Jacqueline von Edelberg created a striking installation on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, March 25. Each strip of cloth represents one child killed by a gun in the U.S. since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 13,000 in all.

Jacqueline von Edelberg gun violence installation with Capitol dome

The installation served as a backdrop for a rally commemorating the one year anniversary of the March For Our Lives. I was there as a volunteer for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and helped to invite passersby to write a note and tie it to the cord. I love how the artist drew people into conversation with the piece, giving them a chance to participate, whether they were activists or tourists (and a few tourists became activists on the spot, putting on “Lives Over Profits” t-shirts and joining the rally).

Jacqueline von Edelberg gun violence installation with Supreme Court

This is how art can draw people into public conversations about challenging issues. This, too, is health data. A visual reminder of each life lost.

For more data on guns, see:

  • State Firearm Laws – a database funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • An interview with Michael Siegel, MD, a Boston University School of Public Health professor who analyzed the impact of firearm laws in all 50 states.
  • Full study (sadly behind a pay wall): “The Impact of State Firearm Laws on Homicide and Suicide Deaths in the USA, 1991–2016: a Panel Study” by Siegel, M., Pahn, M., Xuan, Z. et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine (2019).

For more activist art, see:

  • Artists of health care

Featured image: My snapshot of one of the cards tied to the installation. For those who may not be familiar with the buildings: the top image shows the dome of the U.S. Capitol, the bottom image shows the U.S. Supreme Court.

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