Pink Triangle

Every year during pride week the Pink Triangle, a symbol for love of queerness and resistance is installed on Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Originally it was used by the Nazis to stigmatize homosexuals and used as part of a color code to identify prisoners in concentration camps.
It was reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ community and stands for selflove and pride today.

In a community event dozens of pieces of pink canvas get attached to the north side of the hill where the pink triangle can be seen all over the city.
To me the installation itself is a metaphor of transformational power. The symbols meaning has transformed through the action of a community just like the hill transforms into a piece of public art as relevant today as it was 1996 when it was first installed.

Since 2020 the pink triangle has has been tranformed into a light installation. Read about it here: www.thepinktriangle.com