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Excerpts from Boston
Globe Review
Group's temporary
works in
Mission
Hill use beauty as a
form
of protest
By Christine
Temin, Globe
Staff, 10/8/2003
The stained glass
window
glitters in the sun, its golden Gothic arch aiming heavenward. The
window
isn't in a church, nor is its glass from an art supplier: It's standing
in the middle of Nuns' Field, on Boston's Mission Hill. Its maker,
artist
Lisa Graf, gathered the shards of glass on the site, giving broken beer
bottles and such a new and more dignified life.
Graf's window is
part of
"Reclaiming Nuns' Field," the latest of the guerrilla projects by
Reclamation
Artists, a Boston-based group dedicated to making people notice
neglected
corners of the city through temporary outdoor works. This one is on
view
this weekend...
...It's hard to
think of
many idealistic temporary public art projects that have altered the
course
of business and politics. But it's also hard to believe anyone visiting
Nuns' Field this weekend will come away emotionally and intellectually
untouched.
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