Constitution Cemetery

Title: Constitution Cemetery
Artist: David Forbes See all items with this value
Artist Statement: Constitution Cemetery
Format: 18 x 14
Medium: Colored pencil
Subject: representational See all items with this value; criticism See all items with this value; politics See all items with this value
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 See all items with this value
Location in the Gallery: Bin 2
Log Number: 180-22
Source: 26th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners
Date: 2021