By Rich Pollack
Artist Glenn Weiss was shocked when, during a summer trip to the beach, he discovered that the pavilion at Atlantic Dunes Park in Delray Beach had been destroyed in June during a middle-of-the-night fire that has been ruled suspicious.
Now Weiss, who married his wife, Maria, at the pavilion in 2003, is creating a work of installation art on the burned-out site, using 30 pairs of shoes, a holy book and a boom box to symbolize a wedding and to create a temporary memorial.
“I want to remind people that this is a place of memories,” he said. “This is similar to other temporary memorials but it’s about a place, not about a person.”
Weiss’ Wedding Shoes Project will be on display Oct. 5-16 and he hopes others with memories of the pavilion will send photos and stories that can be lashed to the metal barricade fence now surrounding the site. They can be sent to Weiss at gw@glennweiss.com. Images and stories will also be posted on Facebook at Atlantic Dunes Memories.
An opening reception is scheduled for 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 5.
“I hope people will think about places that have meaning to them or maybe a place that they have lost,” Weiss said.
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