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We are in the midst of the greatest plant and animal extinction in human history. The Light of Hope on Alcatraz will be an extinction education foundation.
My name is Jim Reid. I am a 75-year-old builder and dreamer in San Francisco. Since 1998, I have been nurturing a vision of creating a Wonder of the World on Alcatraz. This project, when realized, will not only be a testament to human creativity and resilience but also a beacon of hope in a precarious future.
I keep this post running to keep the dream alive. When I have the patrons I seek and the funding needed, we will build the Multi-million-dollar fundraising website that will make it happen.
There is no funding or modeling work available at this time.
I seek to consult with an illustrator or 3-D modeler to illustrate five monumental human statues that are an integral part of an extraordinary project titled - The Light of Hope Sculptural Garden on Alcatraz. The five human statues will stand on the vacant parade grounds on Alcatraz Island (see map).
The tallest of these, HOPE, is an Indigenous maiden (see photo) with her right palm upraised to the sky. She will be the same height as the Statue of Liberty and her base or the height of the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. It will be the tallest statue in the western hemisphere.
The mother’s right hand reaches to the sky, seeking connection to a power higher than herself for help in saving her children, all other sentient beings, and the Earth. Intense beams of light emanate from her children’s raised hands, joining her’s as one, piercing the darkness. The beam will be as intense as that of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas; the most intense beam aimed vertically up from the planet.
For two decades, I held this dream close to my heart, often feeling it was just that—a dream. But a chance encounter with a street poet in Dolores Park in 2020 changed everything. His words, which he captured in the attached poem, stirred something deep within me. They reignited the fire of this dream and inspired me to turn it into a reality.
“A dreamer should never be constrained by current reality or naysayers!”–Anonymous
About 200 giant poly-carbonate animal statues, four times life-size (see photos with human model), will stand around the island as if they were walking to the east to meet with the human ambassadors. Other animals will emerge from the bay onto the island as if they have just swum across from the mainland or in through the Golden Gate. Each is an ambassador of their species to humans who seek help from above, be it gods or aliens, to save the planet from extinction in the coming decades.
The project will be funded by the online and in person purchases at Fisherman’s Wharf of several billion subscription tiles that will cover the 205 monumental statues.
Please look at some of the scalable 3D animal models available for sale on TurboSquid (see photos). We need this quality of detail. Ultimately, I want the 3D island to be rotatable so subscribers can find their tile on the animal statue where it resides out of the other five billion tiles. If you peel the skin of the scalable animal, it should show the number and shape of the many tiles that sheath it.
The robust fundraising website will likely cost more than a million dollars to build and manage, but it’s necessary to raise the billions of dollars needed to build this monument.
I imagine some wealthy San Franciscan who would like to leave a legacy of seed money to build a wonder of the world could pay for the cost of the website. If you know such a person, please send them a link to this posting and ask them to consider becoming a patron and building a wonder of the world as their lifetime legacy.
There will also be human-size bronze statues around the island of dozens of humans, historic and living, honoring their contribution to the monument. Like Jane Goodall and chimpanzees and Dian Fossey with Gorillas. As tourists walk among the monumental animal statues, they will encounter these statues of the builders, patrons, and historic heroes of humans, animals, and the environment.
My fantasy is that included amongst these will be a 5’9” bronze of Jim Reid with his eyes and hand upturned to Hope high above. On my bronze head would stand a living gull shitting white poop on my shoulder, karmic retribution for taking their spring nesting grounds with this human monument. There might also be countless bronze nesting trees around the island, where sea birds could build annual nests high above the humans below.
In the last hundred years, our out-of-control population growth has led to the natural extinction rate skyrocketing from one or two species a year to a few dozen vanishing every day, the largest planetary extinction in human history.
The Light of Hope would be an ongoing project. When we talk, we can discuss compensation.
We will create a 501(c)3 non-profit Extinction Education Foundation using this website to inspire volunteers and patrons.
The animal sculptures will be the symbolic national animals of the 195 nations on Earth, ambassadors of their species to humans and to whoever is above.
I’ve begun writing a book, To Alcatraz, that will be a narrative of a handful of humans leading countless animal delegates from all corners of the world across land and seas to transform, metaphysically, upon arrival on Alcatraz into monumental statues.
The clothing on the five copper-clad statues will be inscribed glass or ceramic fundraising tiles from 4” x 4” to 12" x 12" in all shapes, sizes, and textures. This will have to look impressive up close on the island and from afar when lit at night. Imagine the course texture of the white fur of a polar bear rendered in tile with a memorial message subtly visible under the translucent glaze.
A $200.00+ memorial tile, millions of them, bought at Fisherman’s Wharf or online would be surrounded by hundreds of decorative tiles
This Wonder of the World, at its peak, will employ a vast number of artists, ceramicists, tile setters, construction workers, engineers, and designers, all working on nearby Treasure Island.
At a recent visit to the site, I realized I needed to brainstorm the tiles with a ceramicist. I also seek the skills of a ceramic artist with experience creating such tiles.
Imagine an elephant from India, four times life-size, covered in tiles. Imagine a blue whale at the same scale, coming onto the island from the bay. It would be enormous.
Memorial tiles, personally engraved, will fund the project. Countless global citizens could subscribe and create their memorial messages on billions of tiles on a robust fundraising website. I imagine that when the Light of Hope is complete, hummingbird bots will, for a small fee, find any tile and view the memorial message, guided by your mouse or a finger on your phone.
The project will cost several billion dollars and take up to ten years to build. Bechtel Corporation, the largest construction company in the world, based in San Francisco, could engineer and build the structures.
In my bigger dream, if more money is raised, there will be an underwater tram in a tube-like BART that will go from Fisherman's Wharf under the bay and emerge at the foot of the human statues from the mouth of a tile-clad blue whale...monumental. Bechtel Corporation built the BART Tube many decades ago and could easily engineer and build this.
In my biggest dream, each animal statue will have an identical tile-clad statue in a tourist location in the capital city explaining the extinction crisis in their country. I recently paid a tour guide friend from India to build a database of countries, capital cities, tourist bureaus, and national animals.
Once we have a 3-D model of Alcatraz Island and all the statues, a skilled technician could print large copies on a 3-D printer that could be used in hundreds of tourist locations around the world to raise money to educate people about the cascading extinction crisis that we humans have caused.
The national animal of Dubai is the Arabian oryx. These captivating creatures were considered extinct in the wild. The oryx on Alcatraz and in the capital city of UAE will be 16 feet tall at its shoulders. Its tile-clad head and horns will extend another ten feet. The Oryx will be located on Alcatraz as if it has just arrived from Dubai.
The national animal of the United States is the American bison, which had an estimated population of 60 million in the late 18th century. By 1889, the species was culled down to just 541 animals as part of the subjugation and genocide of the countless Indian tribes west of the Mississippi. There are a few living in Golden Gate Park.
I recently read the book An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States. The genocide my European ancestors perpetrated on the Indigenous people of this continent appalled me.
Most countries have a national animal and bird, like the bald eagle in the US, which we humans brought to the brink of extinction decades ago.
From my builder's point of view, constructing the statues will be the easiest part. The challenges will be federal and local approval and fundraising. I am currently lobbying the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the National Park Service, and current governor and likely future president Gavin Newsom to support this project.
I ran for mayor twice, in 1999 and 2003, and built the Smallest House in San Francisco as a builder’s solution to the homeless problem. I sat next to Gavin Newsom in the debates I was invited to. I chatted with him at the Ferry Building when he was promoting his book when he was running for reelection as governor. When he is elected president, he could introduce legislation to approve the project, as Hope will sit on federal land, a national historic monument.
The National park Service could not propose, approve, or facilitate this project on Alcatraz without an act of Congress mandating it. Both the NPS and the SF Board of Supervisors and the Mayor could issue non-binding resolutions: that they support the creation of this Wonder of the World as long as it is built with private money from national and international tile subscriptions.
The Statue of Liberty symbolized the promise of America when she was dedicated on October 28, 1886, 137 years ago. It was a gift from the French Republic to the first great democracy.
The Light of Hope will symbolize hope for humanity, the lesser creatures who share the planet with us, and Earth herself. Alcatraz currently symbolizes the imprisoning of men’s souls.
Radiant animals and ethereal humans will outshine the juxtaposition of the decrepit despair of the prison buildings. The Light of Hope will be a Wonder of the World, the first built since 1635.
The concept is presented on a simple website: www. thelightofhopeonalcatraz.org. Your robust 3-D images will likely remain on the site until they become real on Alcatraz.
I keep this posting running so potential supporters can read and understand the concept and commit to supporting it financially and politically.
The funding for your work will come from a patron inspired by the dream and your 3D artistry.
If you are a competent 3D artist, love the planet and the vulnerable animals who live here, and are committed to using your skills to help save the planet, please write to me.
If you need work to support yourself, this may not be for you. However, if you have spare time or are between paid jobs, perhaps you could begin work on this as a volunteer until there is money to pay you for your back work.
Building a wonder of the world is an extraordinary aspiration and would leave an amazing legacy for early supporters and designers.
Imagine being on the planning committee that built the Sphinx, the Pyramids of Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, or the magnificent Taj Mahal.
This could become a full-time job once we raise the first million in seed money and build the fundraising website.
On a warm summer night in San Francisco, 10 years from now, a million people around the bay will wait as the sun sets on a moonless night. They will all know what is about to happen on a dark Alcatraz Island. Two hundred animal and five human statues will be floodlighted, reflecting the billions of glass tiles. Beams of light from the upraised hands of four children representing the human species will join together at the upraised palm of their indigenous mother. At the same time, smaller random beams of light from around the island will emanate from heads of 200 monumental animals, ambassadors of their species, joining the human children, touching Hope’s palm. Seconds later, an immense beam of light will rise from the mother’s outstretched hand, piercing the night sky, racing up to God or aliens: a plea for help to save the planet and all us sentient creatures who make Earth our home.
Thanks for reading this.
Jim Reid
“Only those who are crazy enough to believe that they can change the world are the ones who do!”
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