Latency #20 (Stonewall Jackson)

Latency #20 (Stonewall Jackson) by Kris Graves Self-portrait of Stonewall Jackson Shrine and Death Site, Woodford, Virginia, 2020 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 rights and dignity in the 21st century. The echo of empathy, anger and pain born from the eight minutes and 46 seconds of viral video that captured Floyd’s passing, resonated not only in...View all