vanessa german, skateboard memorial to tyre nichols who screamed out for his own mama to come for him while the police were jumping on his back and taking his name out of his soul and making him dead with their own looseness of being and in the brutality of this separation unaliving him for no reason other than _________. Well. Or, skateboard as grief. , 2023

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vanessa german

skateboard memorial to tyre nichols who screamed out for his own mama to come for him while the police were jumping on his back and taking his name out of his soul and making him dead with their own looseness of being and in the brutality of this separati, 2023

grief, salt, sore throat from all the screaming, shoes wore out in the soles from marching and begging— then, a beautiful son gone, a beautiful son and his name become a hashtag in the ever-expanding digital memorials of children killed by …, i don’t really know what to say y’all, ok: heartbreak, fear, rage, tears, crane hood ornament, rhinestones, adhesives, cloth, rose quartz for the how the entire universe is held together like how a womb. holds an entire human together within an. Entire human.
12 1/2 x 26 x 9 inches
31.8 x 66 x 22.9 cm

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