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In 2018, more than 14,000 immigrant children were being held in U.S. government detention facilities. Created through 72U, 72andSunny's creative residency, 14,000+ and Counting was a public art installation confronting the separation of immigrant families and the loss of childhood.
Drawing on the missing children milk carton campaigns of the 1980s and ’90s, we constructed a 20-foot-tall milk carton in Venice Beach, California. The structure was composed of thousands of individual cartons, each representing a child in detention. Rather than displaying missing faces, the cartons carried messages about what these children were missing: family, community, safety, and childhood itself. By transforming a familiar symbol of missing children into a monumental public installation, the project sought to make an overwhelming statistic tangible and bring greater visibility to the human consequences of immigration policy.
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BUZZFEED PERO LIKE
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72ANDSUNNY
LITTLE BLACK BOOK
MUSE BY CLIOS
CAMPAIGN LIVE
72U CREATIVE RESIDENCY
LEAD: TRAECY SMITH
PRODUCER: CATHERINE ROSCART
RESIDENTS: DANIEL HYO KIM, CRISTINA MARQUEZ, WALE AGBOOLA, GINGER Q, JACQUELINE MILLER, FEDERICO ZOPPEI, RAJA VENKATAPATHY, TAYLOR ALLEY, TYLER HICKS