Figurative Sculpture

Chin-up

Clay, black ink, white ink, yellow ink, brown ink, wood

4x5x4 inches

Intimidation

clay, blue ink, black ink, yellow ink, white ink, wood, nails

4x9x3.5 inches

The figures Chin-up and Intimidation are a set made to demonstrate the growing inequity between police officers and people of color in the United States as well as the disproportionate amount violence that people of color face from the police. Intimidation depicts a police officer enraged with that anger outfaced and directed generally sitting on a crumbling but daunting. Chin-up depicts the fear that people of color have towards the police, and the need to submit and carefully follow direction so that they may live to see another day.

Statistics show that people of color are killed disproportionately by police officers. Even though half of all people killed by police officers are White, Hispanic and especially Black people are killed at a higher rate despite their lower overall population. In recent years we have seen how trigger happy and violent the police have been with multiple instance of them killing unarmed citizens or those who pose no threat to the police, with again the majority of those killed being people of color. This pattern has caused declining mental and general health in people of color especially in the next few months following these killings in people throughout the state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/956177021/fatal-police-shootings-of-unarmed-black-people-reveal-troubling-patterns

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/how-unjust-police-killings-damage-the-mental-health-of-black-americans/