Constitution Cemetery
Item
- Title
- Constitution Cemetery
- Artist
- David Forbes
- Artist Statement
-
Constitution Cemetery
- Log Number
- 180-22
- Gallery Location
- Bin 2
- Medium
- Colored pencil
- Format
- 18 x 14
- Subject
- representational
- criticism
- politics
- Description
- An illustration of two large gargoule like creatures resting on brick platforms of a wire gate that reads, "Consitution Cemetery," in yellow letters. The right creature is red and has a mashed leg of a police officer. Beneath it is a poster on the brick of a Black Lives Matter poster, with All written on top of the word Black. The left is a creature in police uniform wearing a cloth mask. The poster on the brick beneath it is of Uncle Sam, "I Want You," and he is wearing a face mask. The background is a cemetery with large plue sky with lightening bolts.
- Prison
- Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility
- Source
- 26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
- Date
- 2021
