Artist Pieces Life Back Together After Katrina
Lori Gordon found meaning in the debris of her destroyed home
August 29, 2011
Mississippi artist Lori Gordon works on a new outdoor piece, made from almost all Katrina debris except for a few glass prisms and the hardware holding it together.
In the past few years, towns have been rebuilding. Mississippi artist Lori Gordon took pieces from the debris and built a new home and a new life.
Losing everything
In a small art gallery in the seaside village of Bay St. Louis, Gordon is drilling a piece of wood to mount a new piece of art. Her drill is one of the few things she has from before Hurricane Katrina. When she and her husband evacuated their home near the water, they boarded up the house. Her husband took the drill so he could remove the wood from the windows when they returned. But there was nothing to come back to.
Lori Gordon created 'Habitat', made from Katrina debris, for former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, who came to rebuild with Habitat for Humanity in spring 2008.
"Hurricane Katrina hit, the house went, the studio went, even the tree house didn’t quite make it,"Gordon says, "and of course all of my art supplies and tools went with that."
As did 30 years worth of her art that had been in the studio.
"I lost all that, but what was really hard at the time was not only not having a place to live, but not having a place to work and not having any tools to work with," Gordon says. "With what happened, the loss of home, the loss of community, which was really tough. And the only way I’ve ever had has been my art."
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