Over 125 people are killed by guns every day in the U.S.

To address that epidemic through art, the Gun Violence Memorial Project shares intimate details of lives lost.

Special correspondent Jared Bowen of G.B.H. Boston has the story for our Arts and Culture series Canvas.

They are the essence of home. proud structures with peaked roofs and smiling faces.

Within their glass bricks, the stuff of home, a treasured ball cap, a beloved comic book hero,

a triangle of toy trucks, objects all left behind when their owners lost their lives

to gun violence. We're able to see a little bit more into the personalities, the interests,

the passions of those folks who are no longer here who have been taken due to gun violence.

And so the Gun Violence Memorial Project is a living and participatory memorial to victims of gun violence. And so the gun violence memorial project is a living and participatory memorial

to victims of gun violence.

Architect Jada Di Amazi is one of the designers of the Gun Violence Memorial Project, a traveling

memorial. Right now it's in Boston, on view at City Hall, the Institute of Contemporary

Art, and the architecture firm Mass Design Group.

It's comprised of four houses, each with 700 glass bricks.

That was the number of Americans killed by guns on a weekly basis in 2018 when the memorial

was conceived.

My most heartwarming experience of this memorial is hearing families say,

come look at my house, come, come look at my child, come see what I contributed. That level of

engagement, that level of love, it has really become, as it was intended to be, a vehicle for

healing. The memorial has been populated by objects received at nationwide

collection events, where the families of gun violence victims contribute personal belongings.

Well, I chose the computer mouse because he was always on the computer.

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