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Sundial: How hurricanes and shotgun homes shaped this Miami artist's designs
Germane Barnes witnessed the mad scramble before a hurricane — and he thought about everyone left behind.
Everyone who couldn’t afford to flee in a plane or a car. Those who’d be left behind after a storm, without basic infrastructure. Without electricity or water or cooking fuel. Sometimes for weeks.
He’s thought about people riding a bus through his hometown of Chicago. How little inconveniences add up. A lack of trees for shade. Comfortable benches at a stop. How they act as barriers for the poor to move through the city.
Germane thought about these things like an architect.
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