Posted on 07/22/2015 4:07:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Behind what appears to be a beaded net stained the color of Skittles stands a hollow figure, made distinct by the hint of a sneaker sticking out from under the obscurity. Pan up from the shoe and there's a glimpse of a hooded sweatshirt topping off the towering statue, an unmistakeable bit of clothing loaded with meaning.
Titled "TM 13," the work -- shown above -- memorializes the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager who was fatally shot by former neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman three years ago. Created by Missouri-born artist Nick Cave, the piece is currently on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum, located just outside of Detroit, Mich.
The sculpture echoes the artist's first "Soundsuit," a wearable work of art made in 1992 after the brutal beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles. Composed of a sheath of twigs that rustled as the wearer moved, Cave imagined the piece in a state of confusion over a tragedy that would spark riots across L.A. Decades later, and nearly 500 soundsuits since, Cave -- like much of the nation -- is again confused in the wake of the deaths of Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
"The underlying history of my work has [addressed] the political realms of black identity," Cave said in a phone interview with The Huffington Post....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Celebrating the thug life...How nice, huh? We persecute Christians in America, and memorialize worthless POS criminals. This is your obamanation.
... Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray and the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
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Those four criminals shouldn’t be lumped in with innocent churchgoers.
Black LIES matter, to racist black people. Hate and violence is their religion
You can’t explain “nonsense”. You can only file it away in the “unintelligible” file, File 13.
Does it have the sound of wet grass? No, then that’s real retarded sir.
All of the first four were criminals. The only one worth mourning is the Emanuel AME Church mass murder.
> the unarmed Florida teenager who was fatally shot by former neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman
LIE
The Florida teenager who attacked former neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman, rained down punches on Zimmerman “mma style”, and repeatedly beat Zimmerman’s head into a concrete sidewalk
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