(WNN) Waterford City, Ireland, WESTERN EUROPE: No matter how
much we might want to know who these women are; who’s art portraits have
been captured in an art project called BLINK
as a powerful memorial by 19-year-old Irish artist and woman’s advocate
Sarah Honan; we may never know the majority of these women’s names.
We may also never know the names of their children, their brothers and
sisters, their parents, or the names of those they have secretly loved
during their lifetime.
Seventeen of these eighteen women hold life stories that to date have
stayed a mystery. But all of them have one thing in common. Most have
died from violent crimes or situations of hardship causing them to
become invisible to society. One woman was found slumped over in a stall in a ladies’ restroom inside a Greyhound Bus Terminal with no identification. Another was found dead as she was discovered by a passing motorist in a cornfield.
This is what Sarah Honan is working to undo. Her special goal is to
bring dignity, remembrance and a sense of the individual as
‘real-people’, ‘real-women’ back from what society has unjustly called
“the nothings.” And what Sarah strongly in an instinct for human rights
calls, “these disposable women.”
“They are the forgotten women,” she outlines as she formally describes her art project BLINK.
Two women look at a public art show in
Waterford City, Ireland created by Irish artist Sarah Honan in an art
project called ‘BLINK’ that documents the ‘forgotten women’, the ‘Jane
Does’ inside the United States who have lost their life to violence.
They have done so as no family member or next of kin has stepped forward
to identify them or claim their body. These women who come from a
diverse group represent all ages and races who’s death has been one that
has garnered little respect inside the U.S. Giving honor and respect to
these women is something artist Sarah Honan is dedicated to and now
working to accomplish. Image: Hayley K. Stuart with wallpaper and window
signs by Suirdzign
Waterford City, Ireland created by Irish artist Sarah Honan in an art
project called ‘BLINK’ that documents the ‘forgotten women’, the ‘Jane
Does’ inside the United States who have lost their life to violence.
They have done so as no family member or next of kin has stepped forward
to identify them or claim their body. These women who come from a
diverse group represent all ages and races who’s death has been one that
has garnered little respect inside the U.S. Giving honor and respect to
these women is something artist Sarah Honan is dedicated to and now
working to accomplish. Image: Hayley K. Stuart with wallpaper and window
signs by Suirdzign
