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Wachowski's art captures lost trans lives in vivid emotion
With 2017 only eight days old, two transgender individuals have already been slain in the United States; Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow of Sioux Falls, North Dakota, and Mesha Campbell of Canton, Mississippi.
The exhibit "Say Our Names," on display at the Howard Brown Health Sheridan Road clinic until Friday, Jan. 20, has thus further expanded in profound importance.
Set against a turbulent black-and-white backdrop, the startlingly beautiful portraits of the transgender heroes fallen to violence in 2016 are rendered in a spectrum of hues from ethereal to striking.
Their faces, captured from photographs and as much information about their histories as is available, force the viewer to confront the magnificent potential encompassing each individual life abruptly stolen from this earth with a callous disregard for their humanity in a seemingly endless epidemic of brutality that is as much ignored by the media as it is fueled by it.
Say Our Names creator and award-winning filmmaker Lilly Wachowski started work on the paintings last August.
The exhibit "Say Our Names," on display at the Howard Brown Health Sheridan Road clinic until Friday, Jan. 20, has thus further expanded in profound importance.
Set against a turbulent black-and-white backdrop, the startlingly beautiful portraits of the transgender heroes fallen to violence in 2016 are rendered in a spectrum of hues from ethereal to striking.
Their faces, captured from photographs and as much information about their histories as is available, force the viewer to confront the magnificent potential encompassing each individual life abruptly stolen from this earth with a callous disregard for their humanity in a seemingly endless epidemic of brutality that is as much ignored by the media as it is fueled by it.
Say Our Names creator and award-winning filmmaker Lilly Wachowski started work on the paintings last August.
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Wachowskis-art-captures-lost-trans-lives-in-vivid-emotion/57730.html
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