Latency #1 (George Washington)

Latency #1 (George Washington) by Kris Graves A statue to United States President and Founding Father, George Washington stands in front of the South Carolina State House. The bronze replica statue was constructed in 1857. George Washington, in addition to his military and political careers, was also a slave owner at his estate in Virginia. In the summer of 2020 a collective uprising rooted in local civic engagements, ricocheted around the world in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. It relied on one of the central pillars of Democracy—peaceful protest. Although grounded in the particular, the embodied actions of the multitudes illuminated larger universa...View all