2008 Challenge, Week 24: Rosie the Riveter Memorial

Week 24 of the 2008 Challenge.
Sited at the former Kaiser Shipyard No. 2, the memorial evokes the act of constructing the ships with mass-assembly techniques adopted by Kaiser to make ships in Richmond more quickly, and the process of reconstructing memories of women who worked on the home front.
The principal component is a walkway, the length of a ship’s keel, which slopes toward the San Francisco Bay and aligns with the Golden Gate Bridge.
The path is inscribed with a timeline about the home front and quotes from women workers sandblasted into white granite. Sculptural elements of stainless steel encountered on the walkway are drawn from ship’s blueprints and suggest the unfinished forms of hull, stack and stern under construction.