Latency #14 (Jefferson Davis) by Kris Graves
The Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, VA was unveiled on June 3, 1907 to honor Davis who was the President of the Confederate States of America. The statue of Davis was removed from the monument on June 10, 2020 exactly 113 years and 7 days after its installation.
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 universal questions of basic human ri...