Clare Twomey : Humanity is in our Hands
Event on
Westminster Bridge to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January 2016 during
which Clare Twomey gave out 2000 ceramic spoons she had made.
Each spoon bore
the words “If humanity is in our hands it needs” and different word to finish
the sentence. These were based on a survey she had done on the same bridge the
year before asking the public for their views on what humanity was. She had
made spoons following a conversation with Nisad Šiško Jakupovi, who survived
the Omarska concentration camp during the Bosnian War. During his time in the
camp he and other prisoners had carved spoons out of wood with a piece of glass.
A spoon is a universal tool.
I went into work
early to cross the bridge and try to get a spoon and I was successful. As soon
as I climbed the stairs up on to it I bumped into people handing them out.
Sadly I’d picked the opposite side of the road to Clare herself but as it was
around 9am she was surrounded by news crews.
I thought this
was a lovely simple idea and seemed quite down played in its execution on the
day however as you read more about it you seen the layers of symbolism in the
spoons and I am really pleased to have one.
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