Rituals of Commemoration, 14 Havana Biennial, 2022. For more information and images, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2021. For more information on this work, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2021. For more information on this work, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2020. For more information on this work, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2019. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2018. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2017-2018. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2017. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2017. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2016. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2016. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2016. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration, 2016. For further details on this project, please click the image.
Rituals of Commemoration
Sculpture installation 2014-2023 (ongoing)
Art that raises awareness and builds solidarity.
Rituals of Commemoration began as a gesture of anger and disbelief at the police murder of Michael Brown in August of 2014 and developed into focused research, examination, and inquiry. For the last eight years, I have undertaken the collection, organization, and visualization of injustice making it visible, presenting it to the world as another wake-up call and a denunciation of injustice.
Each one of the bricks that make up the nine columns in the installation represent the more than 1550 African American and Afro descendants, men, women and youth who from 1979 to December 2022 have lost their lives at the hands of the police in the United States.
Since January 2015, The Washington Post records every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty; police have shot and killed 6,732 people as of February 2022. Other non-governmental databases such as Fatal Encounters, Mapping Police Violence and The Counted also keep records. Although half of the people killed are Caucasian, Black Americans are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. Latinos, Native and Indigenous people are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate.