Meet the 45-Foot Woman Set to Stand on the National Mall
By Sophia Barnes
Thursday, Sep 28, 2017
Organizers of an arts festival have launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a 45-foot statue of a naked woman to stand on the National Mall facing the White House. Organizers of the Catharsis on the Mall festival need $90,000 to bring artist Marco Cochrane and his team to assemble the statue in D.C. ahead of the festival, which is scheduled between Nov. 10 and Nov. 12. Organizers say the statue will stay up until March -- and it will be facing the White House.
The National Park Service will allow the statue to stand on the National Mall facing the White House from November until March as long as volunteers keep a constant vigil around it. The vigil will be in support of the Equal Rights Amendment, artist Marco Cochrane said.
R-Evolution premiered at the 2015 Burning Man Festival, an annual arts festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada where attendees burn an effigy. R-Evolution can be pronounced two ways: “our evolution” and “revolution.” The artists say it is up to your interpretation.
Catharsis on the Mall will celebrate its third year in November. R-Evolution will be the centerpiece -- if the group meets its $90,000 crowdfunding goal. This year’s theme is “nurturing the heart.”
The statue is made of welded steel rods, stainless steel mesh skin and interactive lighting. It's intended to make a strong statement condemning violence against women, Cochrane said. Cochrane said he was inspired to build the statue because of a childhood experience with a friend who was sexually abused. “The guy must not have seen her as a person,” Cochrane said. “If he had, he wouldn’t have done this.”
Artists Marco Cochrane says he wants people who see the statue to ask, "what would the world be like if women were safe?"
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