SUNFLOWER LETTERS
Sunflowers are known as the sun Gods and symbolize longevity. The sun rises and reflects the flower buds to follow the sun across the sky. When night falls they resume east to greet the sun again.
[my promise is to] continue to be VERB!!! Life with purpose and action”
-Fire Director, Kenneth Douglass
The Sunflower Letters was an open community forum that closed the Potential Project. Creator, Bentrice Jusu prompted a few questions…
Why did you come here today?
What is your perception of (and experience with) Mental Health?’
What’s something you can individually commit to doing?
And after leaving here, what’s your promise to the lives that can’t leave from these poignant memorials to go home? What’s the promise to yourSELF that you will pursue your potential after watching all of their stories?
“The Potential Project is what ART MUST BE! it moves, It motivates. It materializes.
I’m committed to being honest with myself about my trauma & hurt as a black man Husband, Father, Friend & Leader!” I’m committed to my city & will be Present, Positive, & Participatory in it’s progress! Thank you Bentrice Jusu ”
The conversation included 3 mothers of the individuals featured in the exhibition, residents, firemen, mental health experts, and brothers, sisters, and relatives of the lives featured in the Potential Project. Everyone left, writing a Sunflower Promise Letter to “potential”…
WHAT'S NEXT?
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What's Your Promise to Potential?
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WHAT'S NEXT? 〰️ What's Your Promise to Potential? 〰️
WRITE YOUR SUNFLOWER LETTER
What’s your Promise to Potential?
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