Such creative expression also shines through in an adjacent display which includes dioramas of row houses designed by neighborhood teens. Though one house is bathed entirely in black and another involves a space invader and green, plastic army men, all pieces represent the youth, their culture and their community. The work, like Lowe's, also involves three segments. The first aspect centers around huge dunes of broken glass, representing how even the most broken pieces of our society can come together to create a holistic sense of beauty. These artistic renderings by children and adults in the Los Angeles area reflect their concept of community and their attempt to communicate with different spheres of society.
Some jars merely hold paper and poetry while others involve photographs or toys.
In the project's third area, a table sits where museum visitors can fill their own jar to add to the museum's wall. Next on the exhibit's main floor sits a huge rodeo arena, complete with sand, white fencing and spectator stands. In this way, patrons view short film segments reflecting domestic quarrels and inner city crime problems as though amusedly watching the violence of a rodeo. Other works also put signs of society's foibles and more serious problems in unexpected places in order to bring attention to them. In one part, video cameras flash photo images of such things as hot dogs and doughnuts onto the genitalia of Greek garden statues.