The weather was partly cloudy with a temperature of 62℉. The duration of the site responsive performance was six and half minutes for an audience of 11 (3 of whom were joggers and 1 was a baby in a stroller).
The Fragment… No man’s friend stays faithful to his tomb.
The Location… In 1902, it became illegal to bury new bodies in the city. By 1921, the bodies were being moved en masse to Colma. By 1941 nearly all of San Francisco’s cemeteries were gone.
Most of the city’s early dead, the ones that filled the early cemeteries, were loners, miners, and immigrants. These bodies ended up in mass graves in Colma, and their original tombstones were placed in the city’s rubble pile for use in building projects within the city
Aquatic Park, a Works Progress Administrationproject started in 1936, is made up of these tombstones, and large piles of these grave markers are visible and exposed at low tide.