Art curator Susannah Perlman, who lost her mother to COVID-19, created the Hero Art Project on the National Mall to eternalize the smiles of other health care workers lost to the pandemic.
Perlman launched the project after realizing that many of those killed by the pandemic were"just being lost and forgotten; they were just a number." These commissions, she says, puts faces to the names.
"We'd rarely see these human beings as human lives that were behind these numbers, which I found more heartbreaking than anything else that I can just think of," she said."This person had a life, they had history, they had families, they had roots ... It's more of a personal touch than the statistics.
After the Washington, D.C., show closes on Nov. 28, the mobile home has stops planned for Miami, Texas, Georgia, the West Coast and New England. The exhibit will remain on the National Mall until Nov. 28, before traveling to other parts of the U.S.The exhibit will remain on the National Mall until Nov. 28, before traveling to other parts of the U.S.
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