Angelique

“I had a dream after going on the monument site tour at the end of June and seeing the site and hearing about the plans. Building a space where generations can be together, a place for all ages, one that is beautiful, for the young and old. My family’s favorite monuments are the ones with big water features. Flowing, powerful water. Water is one of the most powerful forces on Earth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement is like a flood. My vision is to capture and create the imagery of water and the Women’s Suffrage Movement in different flower beds in different stages of strength and water flow continuing the metaphor to this movement and water. Starting at the beginning We can be calm and gentle in the background which is how I feel that this right to vote started, we were always in the background. There, present but not a focal point like a mist or a gentle rain. You can see us and we are vital, like a gentle rain or mist we are hopeful and anticipating good things to come. Then in the next flower bed, have a bucket and drops of water, once it reaches the tipping point, we pour out and take action. We start to gather, one drop at a time until we reach our tipping point and overflow and flow out. We are no longer in the background, calm and gentle. We have become a movement. We are gaining strength and speed. We are getting stronger. The next flower bed, can be a flowing stream, each flower bed, the water is more prominent just like the Women’s Suffrage Movement. At the end of the monument, you wonder around the corner, and you see a large waterfall, cascading, powerful, strong, unstoppable, we are at the finish line, we are no longer in the background, we are a force to be reckoned with.”