Tim Kellly Memorial
This monument is in Hermosa Beach California. It resides on the corner of the Strand. sand, and Hermosa Beach Pier. This monument honors Tim Kelly, he is a famous surfer in the community. He has created a legacy in the surfing community putting forth the idea of volunteer work and helping others. Tim Kelly died in a car crash over 60 years ago. The statue still commemorates him, and his ideals today. This represents a traditional figurative monument because it is a stature of a person that commemorates the person. The people and community surrounding this monument have taken it also figuratively to honor surfers, support the local community, and treasure the earth how it is.
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The Tim Kelly surfing monument represents the first point of monumentality. This monument is significant because it represents a pillar of a community and a legacy of surfing. How this relates to the first point is that people have taken this monument as a symbol of someone they want to embody. The town the monument is located in, is a surfing community that has followed the actions and ideals of Tim Kelly. The statue has linked the past, where Tim Kelly surfed and also contributed to the community to help people outside of surfing and into the present where people follow his lead nowaday and will live into the future where people will still continue to be inspired by Tim Kelly the person and the surfer.
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The Tim Kelly surf monument embodies the sixth assumption of public memory in hypothesis two. The sixth assumption of public memory is “memory has a history”. This is inherently true with this statue. The memory of Tim Kelly is different from the history of him. The memory or what people see in the monument is a contribution to the community and it serves to help better the community and the world that surrounds us. The history behind the monument is Tim Kelly himself, he created a history where he was remembered for bettering the community. The history he had created a memory linked to this monument that being the memory of bettering the community.
The Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted
This monument was built in Tiergarten, Berlin in remembrance of homosexuals that endured suffering through the people of the Nazi regime. It was built in 2003 after the decision of the German Parliament. The design for the monument came from Scandinavian artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. The work in the building picks up on slabs from the Holocaust Memorial and uses the medium of film to create a relation to the present day. The Monument was officially opened on May 27th, 2008. Since then it has served as not only a memory of the homosexuals that were tormented but all of the minorities that were harmed.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
The monument in the picture is the site of the little bighorn battlefield national monument. It is located in Crow Agency Montana. This example works as a site as a monument because this was the location where US soldiers and Plains Indians fought over land. In the wars called the Sioux Wars. The war was bloody and there were many deaths. The site was built to remember all the lives lost in battle including those from all the different Indian tribes including the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. As well as the US troops who lost the battle and suffered many losses. Why this specifically fits the third kind of monument the best is because the site's significance comes from the location. As well as the history and memories from the site specifically.