4/4 Door Project for New Orleans/Lilly Day

On Friday the 4th (as well as on Tuesday the 1st, and the Tuesday before that), I have been working on my portion of decorating the door that is going to be shipped to New Orleans as a sign of hope from New York to New Orleans, and as a sign to keep going, and to proove art as a form of sustainability. We are creating this door to lift the spirits of those who suffered from Katrina, and to show everyone that we all care about what happened to them, and are willing and prepared to do something to make a change. We have divided the door into nine parts so that each group working on the project will be able to fill in a section with their own design. Two Tuesdays ago one of the art teachers halping us on this project (a man from New Orleans, who came here after Katrina to find a better life), showed us a film about the heritage of New Orleans, and how it is now, images of everything that was lost, and what different people are doing to help the situation. Our way of contributing is to create this door of hope. Our final creation is to be put into a show case, and I believe that hopefully, we will be talking about it to the public at some point. After finishing this one door, if we have enough time, our goal is to complete another, and so on, until we have touched the lives of many.