Diary of a Radio Junkie: 1649Days of Waking Up to the News
5/27/20
ink pen, gouache, watercolor, graphite on paper
7.75 x 6.5”
As U.S. deaths from coronavirus near 100,000, the Covid Racial Death Tracker shows Black people are dying at a rate nearly 2 times higher than population share, Protests break out in Minneapolis after video of White police officer kneeling on head of Black man resulting in his death, 4 officers fired, In Central Park White woman calls police on African-American birder after he asked her to leash her dog.
All images, sound, and text (with the exception of the authors listed in the bibliography) © Elise Engler 1996-2021 Thanks to JimWhitakerPhotography.com and to reiniergerritsen.nl for the digital photography.