Have You Seen Me? Public sculpture concept

'Have You Seen Me?’, a public sculpture, takes the form of a giant spiral, up and away from the viewer on the ground. In the shape and size of a series of images, the spiral resembles a film strip. Each image shows the portrait of a missing child, with their names, approximate ages, last seen locations, and basic descriptors – all the information on the typical “Have you seen me?” ads. The words “HAVE YOU SEEN ME?” – the title of the sculpture – wrap around the bottom ring of portraits, confronting the viewer and making obvious the point of this piece. The portraits near the bottom will be the most recent, with disappearances from this year at the very end. The missing persons adverts become older as you move further up the monument, and therefore harder to see. Viewers will have to seriously crane their necks to see the images at the top. The spiral shape represents the news cycle, how only the most recent disappearances remain fresh in our minds (and only those if you read past the HAVE YOU SEEN ME? headline – few people get past that point). Only with great effort can you read the names near the top, as only with great effort can you find enough of their stories and leads to actually help in the search. The news cycle forgets these missing people, erasing them from the public consciousness if they are not found in the first few days. The sculpture stands roughly 30 feet high, allowing for four rounds in the spiral, each 5 feet tall with a gap on either side so that the images are not flush against one another. The spiral is also supported by a large interior post, and additional posts that support the heaviest sections.