Black Lives Matter

I've been reading, watching, and listening for many months to the ongoing discussions sparked by the violent and completely unnecessary deaths of so many black and brown people. I've signed petitions and donated funds to some of the organizations doing work on this issue, but I've refrained from attending protests and felt bad about that.  So this was what I did instead.

My goal in creating this piece was to stress each word equally, with space between them, so that viewers would really pay attention to each word: BLACK. LIVES. MATTER. Thus, each word got its own panel.

I added two small sunflowers (thanks to a vintage teapot donated to me by my artist friend Sharon Fischer) at the beginning and the end, to acknowledge George Floyd and his still-growing life after death. The teapot also shows up in some of the dark brown patterned pieces.

The entire background consists of broken pottery. Our lives all contain broken pieces, and we all need to be regularly put back together. But black and brown lives have been especially, consistently, and purposefully broken throughout this country's history. 

​I want this piece to live somewhere public--not in my studio where only I will see it. If you have suggestions of an organization doing positive work that might like it, please let me know.