The number of flags has nearly tripled since the first display in fall 2020.
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg, the artist, spoke with ABC News as more and more flags were being placed on Thursday.Workers plant white flags as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's temporary art installation,"In America: Remember," in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, Sept. 15, 2021. The installation will consist of more than 630,000 flags when completed.
"It's really hard to think about the grief that is just embodied by one flag," Firstenberg said."And when as you walk amongst 660,000, it's unimaginable the pain that people have gone through."Many now also carry messages from across the country submitted on the project's , messages to mothers, fathers, siblings and friends. Firstenberg said she hoped it could be cathartic for families not able to hold large funerals or be with family and other loved ones given pandemic restrictions.A worker plants white flags as part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's temporary art installation,"In America: Remember," in remembrance of Americans who have died of COVID-19, on the National Mall in Washington, Sept. 15, 2021.
Firstenberg said she hopes the flags, and the sound of them being pulled in the wind, will give visitors"a moment of pause." "This is all of our art," she said,"because it's when people personalize flags and a complete stranger comes and meets that flag and feels something, senses the grief that is embodied by just that one flag, they created the art, too."
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