"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."
-- Toni Cade Bambera, writer and activist, b. 1939

We invite individuals of all ages and backgrounds to answer four questions, culminating with this one: “If anything were possible, what would you create?” Community responses will shape the meaning and design of the work. Fragments of text expressing divesre voices withint he community will be woven together and etched into the lower areas of the glass veil. The answers will descend onto the stone wall below, where they will fill the entire wall with thousands of words cut permanently into the stone. This text will be largely invisible from a distance but legible from close range.

Text will also be cut into bronze bands backed by glass and set into the stone pavers of the plaza at the foot of the art wall. These words will illuminate at night from sources beneath the plaza.

Etched stone lettering in a work by Teri Kwant of Minneapolis.	A comparison of the current site with an artist's concept image. Test will be etched into the stone wall up to the 2nd story.

The text will be edited and assembled in collaboration with visual artists, poets, storytellers and a calligrapher. This collective statement will explore and reflect inner visions and latent possibilities. We invite you to contribute your voice to this inquiry. Your words may become permanently etched into the Frederick streetscape at the heart of the city.

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