Interview with "Floodwall" creator, Jana Napoli

When Jana Napoli returned to New Orleans two months after the hurricanes had ravaged her native city, she found the sodden and damaged remnants of people's lives cast out on the sidewalks. Though they were signs of a painful salvaging of life by its returning inhabitants taking stock of their homes, they represented as well the radical obliteration of their past. Every day for the next two months, Napoli wandered amid the rotting and moldy debris of the city's neighborhoods, first instinctively and then deliberately, gathering household drawers. The 610 drawers that she retrieved, from dressers, kitchen cabinets, desks and bureaus, empty of their contents but suffused with memories, are the bricks of this installation.

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• Art
• Installation
• Floodwall
• New
• Orleans
• NOLA
• Katrina
• Hurricane
• Sculpture