Neon Monument to Philly’s Indigenous History Glows Again

Penn Treaty Park

On October 14, 2019, WHYY published this feature about the preservation of a neon monument.

This public art project was designed by Duane Linklater, an indigenous Canadian artist. It was temporarily installed in Penn Treaty Park in 2017 for Mural Art’s Monument Lab city-wide art event. Len Davidson and Cohen Metals fabricated the original monument and resurrected it in October 2019 at Penn Treaty Museum. The 20’ sculpture, “In Perpetuity,” uses ruby red neon to spell out a translated quote from Chief Tamanend at the treaty of William Penn and the Lenni-Lenape nation.

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https://whyy.org/articles/neon-monument-to-phillys-indigenous-history-glows-again-at-penn-treaty-park/