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I Can't Breathe!
Spray-painted text on a sidewalk. Reads "I Cant Breath!" and "George."
Tags: George, George Floyd, I can't breathe, June 2020, sidewalk, spray-painted text, text
Don't Criticize What You Can't Understand - Love Is All Around. No Need To Waste It
Two red painted panels. Both have geometric patterns at the lower half. The first has two circles with text: "Don't Criticize what you Can't Understand" and "for the times They are a-changing." The second has "Love is all Around. No Need to waste…
George Floyd // Black Lives Matter
Two wheat-paste posters displayed side-by-side on power transformers. The poster to the left features a pop-art stylized image of George Floyd, while the poster to the right bears the fully-capitalized words "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in bold white…
Black Lives Matter
On the gothic stone facade of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, a large yellow poster with a black border reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in fully-capitalized bold font.
Love Black Girls // Love Black Boys
Two all-black profiles face each other, the left feminized by lengthened eyelashes in comparison to that of the right. Both profiles feature a thick white outline, defining their curly hair. The text overlaying the left profile reads: "Love Black…
Tags: @edreys, @qua.jay, @yames_cat, Afro, Black Boys, Black girls, Buffalo, Edreys Wajed, James "Yames" Moffitt, Love, Men, New York, Profile, Quajay Donnell, text, United States, Women
Too Many of You
On a fully black background, a white profile of a person with an afro is overlaid with stylized, fully-capitalized bubble lettering that reads "Mother, Mother there's too many of you crying // Brother, brother, brother, there's too many of you…
John Lewis // Good Trouble
A black-and-white portrait of the late Congressman and Civil Rights activist John Lewis as a young man, his face intense in thought, wearing a white short sleeve shirt and dark tie. The background behind him is a wash of pale yellow with abstract…
RISE
A large-scale wheat paste mural takes up the side of a business wall. The image is on a black rectangular background, bordered with white/cream. A Native person looks up at the word "RISE" bordered by two lightning bolts. Their portrait is done in a…
Rest In Peace George Floyd
On a black background, a full-color portrait of George Floyd. The image chosen is a highly recognizable portrait of Floyd, wearing a black sweatshirt. A yellow outline borders the portrait. The stylized yellow-painted words "Rest In Peace" are to the…
Take A Look At Yourself
A black-and-white portrait of George Floyd on plywood outside of a business. The portrait is stylized to be more abstract and haunting than hyperrealistic, but because it is such a recognizable photo Floyd is easily identified. His black hooded…