In the last few years, through civil unrest, prior and during the Covid-19 global pandemic, “after the death of George Floyd in late May (2020), more than 130 Confederate statues and tributes to divisive historical figures have come down in a flurry of protests, acts of vandalism and government decrees” (Ortiz). Masses of people surrounding one body, pulling in attempts to dethrone these lifeless, yet lifelike statues, are juxtaposed with the efforts to recover bodies from collapsed buildings; this is the origin story of my art show, TOMORROW.
