The Button Project is mesmerizing, a memorial to 1.5-million Jewish children - The New Bedford Light

The Button Project is mesmerizing, a memorial to 1.5-million Jewish children - The New Bedford Light

Have you ever seen a million of anything? How about a million-and-a-half?There is something remarkable and beautiful about the act of collecting that many of any particular object and finding a way — nay, a need — to display them in their entirety.Currently on exhibition at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery at Bristol Community College’s Fall River campus, a million-and-a-half buttons are on the floor. And it is mesmerizing. The footprint of the…