By Rosario Teixeira
BOSTON, Mass—On Feb. 14, Peace of Art, Inc. added three new digital billboards in commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The billboards are different from the others in design but similar in concept—they all commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide and pay tribute to the victims. Two digital billboards are located in Foxboro, and the third is in Peabody.
Against a black background, one billboard reads, “1915-2015 the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.” The letters “O” and “C” in the word “Genocide” are combined to form a red heart with a bite. The heart symbolizes the heart of a nation, and the bite symbolizes 1.5 million innocent lives carved off a nation, whose wounds are still bleeding through generations.
The other digital billboard reads, “I Remember and I Demand 1915-2015 the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.” The letter “O” in the word “Genocide” is a purple flower, the official Armenian Genocide Centennial symbol. The flower has five petals that represent the five continents where genocide survivors settled and rebuilt their lives. The flower also represents the pain shared by Armenians around the world united with their demands for recognition and justice.
“Since January 2015, Peace of Art, Inc., has displayed 10 billboards in the United States, in Chicago, Ill.; Seattle, Wash.; and Peabody, Sharon, and Foxboro Mass., and will continue to display electronic billboards throughout the United States during the year 2015,” said Peace of Art founding president Daniel Varoujan Hejinian.
For more information, visit www.PeaceofArt.org.
Guest Contributor
Latest posts by Guest Contributor (see all)
- Nora Armani to perform Mercedes and Zaruhi in Boston - April 24, 2024
- Message on the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide - April 23, 2024
- St. Gregory Church in Indian Orchard celebrates 90th anniversary - April 23, 2024
I applaud the effort and the intentions behind it but I can’t get over the bizarre design of both of these billboards. The fact that they each require so much explanation sums up the problem; something like this needs to convey its message clearly and immediately, both visually and with text. On the purple one, the text doesn’t even make sense when read as a sentence. I don’t know what the design and selection process was for these but I can’t help but think that they did not solicit many opinions before unveiling them. It’s odd given that in the past this same group has produced much more effective, comprehensible designs.
THERE SHOULD BE MORE BILLBOARDS LIKE THAT THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!
They can’t deny too long. The blood of the martyrs are the seed of the nation and the church.
They will grow and florish!
We congratulate Varoujan Hejinian for the numerous years he has put up billboards in the Greater Boston area and especially for the upcoming 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish Government whom refuses to recognize it’s wrongs & make Reparations & Land Returns back to the Armenian People & Nation. We hope Armenian’s will contact their Congressman & Senators to push for this long unrecognized Genocide by the U.S. Government.