Fragments reimagines shattered storefront glass — collected during the George Floyd demonstrations in Philadelphia — as a site of memory, transformation, and creative resilience. This collaborative, community-centered art project treats protest glass as both material and metaphor: each fragment carries the weight of lived history and calls for care, intention, and respect in its reuse.
Participants are involved at every step, from shaping ideas and arranging fragments to hands-on creation and documentation. Through shared exploration, the project weaves together diverse practices—projection mapping of glass textures onto the human form, cyanotype printing in open workshops, and ephemeral installations captured through photography and film. Fragments evolves organically, reflecting the collective voice and creative energy of all who take part.
By grounding the work in historically embedded materials and place, Fragments becomes a space for presence, loss, and regeneration—where acts of making become gestures of remembrance and hope. Participation is open to all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels, affirming creativity as a shared right and resource.
In a time marked by fracture and division, Fragments offers a way to come together through art-making, to confront what’s been broken, and to imagine new possibilities built from what remains. As the project grows, we aim to exhibit the resulting works—images, prints, and installations—in a gallery setting, extending the dialogue and honoring the community that shaped it.