While I haven’t discussed Peckham up until this point, the above photo is my plan to bring a little more creativity to an already creative space. Peckham is a place where those who are new to the United States, and have barriers to employment, can come for job training and pay. The program is built up by various amounts of nationalities, all with the ability to communicate through translators, and has benefits including an art room, fitness center and career service center.
My idea for this space is to build a massive tree branch, out of what I’m thinking to be either metal wiring or some sort of tubing, with hundreds of fruits growing from it. Each fruit would symbolize a worker. Every year, that worker would place another fruit of a different color on a branch. As time progresses, and workers leave for other careers, the fruits put up will fall, and in place a golden-seed-plaque would be put on the wall. On it, their name, how many years they worked at Peckham, and where they are off to. The idea behind the seed is to show that leaving Peckham allows for those individuals to grow their own branch, starting something for themselves.
