WE BELONG (2022)

Light-based public art installation
Currently on view at Boston City Hall
February — Spring 2023
Previously exhibited at East Boston Social Centers (Summer–Fall 2022)

We Belong is a light-based public art installation with the intent to promote ideas of belonging and inclusion among communities in Boston. In LED neon, the work forms the text “We Belong—here—together—guided by the same stars” in a circular format, with an underlying constellation of individual LEDs that map and connect Boston’s neighborhoods. The sculpture’s elements are timed to light up in a sequence, beginning with the words and slowly revealing the stars.

With the support of a Boston Transformative Public Art grant, the installation will travel to multiple Boston neighborhoods in 2022-2023, beginning with the East Boston Social Center in Summer–Fall 2022 and now at Boston’s City Hall through Spring 2023. Through community events at each site and digital engagement opportunities, local residents are invited to participate in the project by sharing what the concept of “belonging” means to them.

This project is supported by Now + There’s Public Art Accelerator program and a City of Boston Transformative Public Art grant.

What does “belonging” mean to YOU?

Local residents are invited to participate in the project by sharing their response via the online form below. Responses will be shared continually on this page.