Say Their Names
we must transform our trauma or we will transmit it I was angry that I felt pressure to make this new artwork. I did not want it to be beautiful.
I did not want to make it compelling, beauty can glamorise evil and be propaganda for consumerism. Beauty can also condone and exonerate, that is not what I wanted to do. I did not want to commodify black suffering as is so often done. I did not want my message co-opted. I did not want to play into that victim narrative. I was furi
