ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Flux Projects is a nonprofit organization in Atlanta trying to make art available to the community at no cost. It is a way for them to create a platform for people to have conversations.

They are continually working on a multi-year, multi-project series called “Flow,” exploring the different ways we use water to connect with nature, to grieve, to love. They partner with local artists to make it happen. The next installation will be coming up in Buckhead at the end of April. It is called “Braiding Time, Memory and Water.” It is a performance encouraging people to reconnect with nature.

“Today, we are in an installation called ‘Our Mothers Our Water, Our Peace.’ It is by a Korean American artist Gyun Hur,” said Flux Projects Executive Director Anne Archer Dennington.

These exhibits are also used to tell stories of grief.

“Grief never leaves but it continues to flow,” said Archer Dennington.

Every glass teardrop looks like they are falling from the ceiling. Each one is filled with water from the Chattahoochee River. The installation is an effort to portray the grief within the Asian American community after the 2021 deadly shootings at metro Atlanta spas. On March 16, eight people were killed.

“Unless we remember these things, we run the risk of repeating them. It is very important, not only for the Asian American community to remember this story, but it is important for all of us to recognize it as part of Atlanta’s history and what has happened here,” said Archer Dennington.

The teardrops are in the musical pattern of “I Have Got Peace Like a River.”

Flow is a simple name. It is a simple way of talking about big issues that might be too heavy without the art that helps translate it.

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