There's a new art work installed in Hay Castle at the moment, put in to coincide with the Hay Music Festival, where the theme of the weekend was Exiles and Emigres.
Ungrievable Lives is by Caroline Burraway, and was created to represent refugee children. Small dresses have been made out of discarded life jackets left behind by refugees on the island of Levbos, one for each one million child refugees. There are thirteen of them. Each dress is hung from a weighing scale, to represent Justice with her scales, and to ask what is the value of a refugee child's life, compared to a person living in the West? Under the dresses is a line of sand, to represent borders, which are continually changing over time.
It's a very thoughtful and powerful display, and it can be seen at the Castle until 29th September.
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