Name in inventory: JE. Requiem for 2020 Statues (Set) - C/M (Wear to Unpack)
Land impact: Varies
Permission: copy/modify
100% mesh
Land Impact:
— Angel of Sorrow - 4 LI
— Angel of Comfort - 5 LI
— Angel of Fury - 6 LI
Features: all mesh, good quality - can rez multiple copies - resize/stretch all or parts of it if you want - good composition and detail
Description: A set of 3 different statues to honor the memory of all the people whose lives were lost in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. They memorialize all the tragedies of this year. They're called Angel of Sorrow, Angel of Comfort, and Angel of Fury.
Each statue is set on base that is specially engraved with the words "2020" and "Requiem for a Year."
A large (outdoor) size and small (indoor) size of each one is included. The large size is about 2 meters tall (avatar height), and the small size is about 1 meter tall. All are resizable to suit your place and purpose.
“Requiem” usually refers to a piece of music used in religious services to honor the deceased. Here, I'm opening up the meaning to apply to an art piece that visually conveys that same sense and can be interpreted in a more broadly spiritual way than a strictly religious one.
If you've experienced loss in 2020, or if you are an empathetic person who readily feels the pain of others, it's hoped that these statues can help provide a bit of solace.
The Angel of Sorrow is derived from a well known statue called The Angel of Grief Weeping Over the Dismantled Altar of Life. It was created in 1894 by William Wetmore Story for the grave of his wife Emelyn Story, which is located in Rome. It's not known (at least by me) where the figures represented in the other two statues originate.
The statues can be focal pieces in a courtyard or garden. The smaller ones are suitable for display indoors. They could be good additions to a mediation or prayer space that you might have.
They could also be sent as a gift for a partner or friend, if they experienced a significant loss during this year. They can also be good for memorial services held in SL.
As of December 27, 2020 (the date of this writing), the total number of documented deaths worldwide due to COVID-19 is 1,764,584.
We've become inured to statistics by now, but that's not merely a number. That is a staggering 1,764,584 people, each one with families and friends — and all the other people who cared about them, including healthcare workers — who feel the enormity of the loss of that person in their lives. The impact of those 1.7 million deaths ripples outward from each and every one of them, to affect an immeasurable number of other people.
There are also all the people this year who have been affected by loss of livelihood, loss of homes, and loss of everything else that goes with those key underpinnings of stability in their lives. So many are struggling now to get by.
And 2020 has also seen the pained and furious outcry by millions of people in protests all over the world against racial violence and injustice that just never seems to end. The number of black men and women killed at the hands of police officers — many whose names will never be known — reached a tipping point with the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.
There are others who have been forced to postpone or significantly modify celebrations of long-awaited milestones in their lives, like weddings or graduations or going off to college. Many have had to cancel them altogether.
There are also the millions of exhausted nurses, doctors, and other hospital and nursing home staff people who have been working so hard to save the lives of people with COVID-19 — a battle that they too many times have lost. The anguish that many of them feel, from so many deaths happening all around them, is prolonged and deep.
There are all the grocery store workers, public transportation workers, and workers in all of the other necessary — yet underrecognized — occupations like banks and mailing operations, whose services are so basic to modern human existence. They have faced a huge risk of contracting the illness during this pandemic. The daily risks that they take on behalf of all of us is certainly worthy of honor.
And there are all of the teachers who have not been able to have direct contact with students within their physical classrooms. They've been forced to adapt to improvised means of communication, instead of the well-honed teaching skills and methods that they have relied on in the past. And so many students — particularly low income and students with disabilities — have simply fallen by the wayside.
These are all important losses as well.
A lot of love and hugs have gone into the making of these statues. I hope that they can help comfort you in some way, or at least give you a tangible way to memorialize — and say farewell to — 2020, a year unlike any other we will have ever experienced in our lifetimes.
[ be well ♥ ]
See item in Second Life- all mesh, good quality
- can rez multiple copies
- resize/stretch all or parts of it if you want
- good composition and detail








