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    DESIGN SELECTED FOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN PASADENA

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/design-selected-for-armenian-genocide-memorial-in-pasadena.html
    January 29, 2013 | 7:42 pm

    The winning design for a public memorial in Pasadena commemorating
    the Armenian genocide was announced Tuesday.

    The design by Catherine Menard - a student at the Art Center College
    of Design, which submitted the concept to the Pasadena Armenian
    Genocide Memorial Committee for consideration - was praised as an "an
    emotionally compelling design" that would serve to "inspire a similar
    emotional connection in those who encounter it, for generations to
    come," according to an announcement issued Tuesday.

    The central feature of Menard's design -- a carved-stone basin of
    water straddled by a tripod arrangement of three columns leaning into
    one another -- is a single drop of water that falls from the highest
    point every three seconds, each "teardrop" representing one life lost,
    according to the college.

    A rendering of the winning design was not immediately available.

    Over the course of one year, 1.5 million "tears" will fall into the
    pool, representing the estimated number of people who died during the
    Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1918, which occurred under the Ottoman
    Empire, or what is now the modern republic of Turkey.

    The Turkish government disputes that a genocide occurred, claiming
    the victims were killed in the chaos of World War I.

    The project is slated for Memorial Park in Pasadena and is expected
    to be completed by April 24, 2015, the 100th anniversary for
    commemorations of the genocide.

    Menard, a 26-year-old of French Cajun heritage who is majoring in
    environmental design at the college, had to first immerse herself in
    the brutal history of the Armenian people to come up with concept.

    In a statement, Menard said the research process was engrossing and
    inspirational.

    "At first I felt unworthy -- who am I to respond to such loss?" she
    said. "But art lends itself to the deepest, darkest parts of human
    experience. It can create sympathy, empathy, understanding. I wanted
    to pair this horror with something uplifting and beautiful, to create
    a way to remember.

    "I developed three different ideas and settled on the one that I felt
    most terrified and most moved by."

    --Jason Wells, Times Community News

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