Size 30 “ X 40” 

Everyone around me was talking about Minneapolis and ICE, the intensity, the fear. One night, my husband turned to me, completely shook, and said he just watched the killing of a man named Alex Prietti. Suddenly everyone was talking bout it. When I finally got into the studio, I gave myself the time to tune in, to understand what was happening and why the whole country was shaking over it. 

This image was taken from a 2015 protest of Freddie Gray's death in police hands. 2015 was sadly before my real awareness of the depth of modern protest and the deep systemic injustices targeting Black people in this country. Looking at the faces of these protestors, determined, serious, arms linked, it’s such a simple yet dynamic and powerful energy. The feeling that together, we are a wall, we are a force. The power of linking arms. Of looking straight ahead.