An artist creates a giant snowglobe with Hillary Clinton's unused election night confetti
What a lovely thing to do.
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An artist creates a giant snowglobe with Hillary Clinton's unused election night confetti
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/hillary-clinton-confetti-art-trnd/index.html?sr=twCNNp071417hillary-clinton-confetti-art-trnd0330PMStory&CNNPolitics=Tw
By Nancy Coleman, CNN
Updated 4:06 PM ET, Fri July 14, 2017
(CNN)Bunny Burson spent the night of the 2016 presidential election at Hillary Clinton's watch party in the Javits Center. She stared up at the center's glass ceiling with her husband and two daughters until 2 a.m., waiting for confetti to rain down on the country's first female president and her supporters.
As the election results rolled in, it became clear that Clinton would not shatter the ceiling that night. The mood grew darker in the Javits Center. The confetti never came.
"Hillary Clinton has been a beacon for me really as a woman," Burson told CNN. "That's really where I thought that this was going, to be the election of all elections to inspire women."
So Burson, an artist based in St. Louis, took what she called an overwhelming emptiness and turned it into something positive. She channeled her emotions into her art.
Burson created a snowglobe within the window of Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. Inside the window, rising and falling 24 hours a day, is the same confetti from election night in the convention center. And written on the outside, the exhibit's borrowed title from one of Maya Angelou's most iconic and empowering poems: "And Still I Rise."
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After the watch party, Burson set off on a mission. She wanted to find the actual confetti that had been loaded into the cannons that night...............................
A woman watches the "And Still I Rise" exhibit from outside the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis.
Inspiring young women
"And Still I Rise" was chosen as an inspirational title from a focus group of young women, the group that Burson wanted to be motivated by her art.
"I want women and little girls to just don't feel defeated by this," Burson said. "Keep going. Keep fighting."
With the rest of the 200 pounds that isn't in the main snowglobe, she's going to create a series of miniature versions of the exhibit. Smaller "And Still I Rise" globes with the same confetti inside will be sold inside Planned Parenthoods in St. Louis, and all proceeds will go back to the organization.......................
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