A Tiny, Secret, Street Art Monument In Boston Remembers Trayvon Martin

Greg Cook @ The Artery - For about four years, Matthew Hincman had been eyeing the old stump of a lamppost at the corner of Eliot and Centre streets in Jamaica Plain’s Monument Square. It stood there, with two screws sticking pointing up, as if calling for something to go on top.

“Ripe for intervention,” he figured.

And he got to thinking about the granite monument tower on the other side of the square to a couple dozen West Roxbury men who died in the Civil War. Long forgotten men, he thought. “There’s no collective memory around those historical monuments any more,” he says.

“Who do we memorialize?” he began to ask himself. “Why do we memorialize them in the public space?”  Read more.