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2020 I made this image five days after Jacob Blake was shot seven times and seriously injured (he is now paralyzed) by a police officer on Aug. 23, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Making this image was my way, as a white man, of processing a year of police violence against Black citizens including Jacob Blake, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The bullets in this image are falling like dominoes, and the dominos too often fall toward death. I'm angry. I'm sick of it. The injustices of police brutality against Black citizens are real, and we cannot look away. We must erase systemic racism in America. I must choose to be anti racist. We all must raise up Black voices. The dominos must fall toward justice. |