This S.F. art installation offers closure, humor after the 2024 election

Tony Bravo

 

Raise your hand if you’re still processing the 2024 election. 

You’re not alone.

In all major events in my life, I have come to appreciate how a little tradition and ritual can help contextualize and understand them in the larger scheme. Days where we honor the dead, commemorate history and come together in community settings are important in good times, and perhaps even more necessary in confusing times. Such continuity is helpful when things are uncertain; federal elections themselves are part of that cycle of normalcy every four years.

Having a sense of humor at these times is also helpful, and as such, one of my new favorite election-season traditions is finding out where in the Bay Area Nina Katchadourian’s “Monument to the Unelected” will show up.