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Exciting progress
I have defined two projects that will be the core of Descansos.org - Both are really exciting and are intended to achieve the intent, but in different timelines.
First - there's the Roadside Memorial Garden::
So what I would like to achieve is to create a memorial garden along the public highways of Florida....
The families have a need to keep the loss, caused by a vehicular accident, in the public eye! Mostly so that this tragedy is not forgotten & so that it does not occur to another family.
Even without the consent/ approval/ acceptance of the state officials I will continue!!! Yes, it will take several years of trying to get the state to even listen to me.
Second - There's the Painted Memories Project ::
Joe Kipikash, a Tampa area filmmaker involved in making a documentary and a fictional film (called Descansos) explores the idea of roadside memorials. He said "Death -- it's been very sanitized. Everything is very neat and clean. People don't like to talk about death... in some way family and friends are sort of reaching out to the community and talking about death" through the memorials.
The roadside markers serve two purposes. First: families mourning can find closure in seeing a marker at the place where their loved one died. Second: the memorials carry a message. According to Todd McCallum, assistant professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, "They serve as a warning to other drivers, saying that they lost a family member here..." Clearly the message is for the general public - to:
"Drive Safely" somebody lost their life here!
As humans we need to obtain closure in order to continue. Without closure people tend to suffer over and over again, mostly because the memory and story of the death is alive and real within us.
So the mission of the Painted Memories Project is to get the message out. By telling the story, my hope is that the families will be able to relase the pain and suffering that sometimes becomes a stranglehold. I want this story to live outside of them, a new life - in an artistic creation, so that they can see themselves free to love and live again - in spite of the loss.
First - there's the Roadside Memorial Garden::
So what I would like to achieve is to create a memorial garden along the public highways of Florida....
The families have a need to keep the loss, caused by a vehicular accident, in the public eye! Mostly so that this tragedy is not forgotten & so that it does not occur to another family.
Even without the consent/ approval/ acceptance of the state officials I will continue!!! Yes, it will take several years of trying to get the state to even listen to me.
Second - There's the Painted Memories Project ::
Joe Kipikash, a Tampa area filmmaker involved in making a documentary and a fictional film (called Descansos) explores the idea of roadside memorials. He said "Death -- it's been very sanitized. Everything is very neat and clean. People don't like to talk about death... in some way family and friends are sort of reaching out to the community and talking about death" through the memorials.
The roadside markers serve two purposes. First: families mourning can find closure in seeing a marker at the place where their loved one died. Second: the memorials carry a message. According to Todd McCallum, assistant professor of psychology at Case Western Reserve University, "They serve as a warning to other drivers, saying that they lost a family member here..." Clearly the message is for the general public - to:
"Drive Safely" somebody lost their life here!
As humans we need to obtain closure in order to continue. Without closure people tend to suffer over and over again, mostly because the memory and story of the death is alive and real within us.
So the mission of the Painted Memories Project is to get the message out. By telling the story, my hope is that the families will be able to relase the pain and suffering that sometimes becomes a stranglehold. I want this story to live outside of them, a new life - in an artistic creation, so that they can see themselves free to love and live again - in spite of the loss.