UNDOING TIME | AMENDS | EXCESSIVE FORCE

A quotation from the fourth amendment to the constitution, which protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures,” and a statement by Justice William O. Douglas from his dissent in the case of Terry v. Ohio (1968) in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the practice of “Stop and Frisk,” are embroidered into the stripes of the Flag.

Each of the fifty stars in the star-field of the flag bears the name, age, location and date of death of an unarmed black man or woman killed by police.

In front of the flag hang three black hoodies with holes that match the pattern of bullet wounds in the autopsy reports for Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald. The wall text for the three hoodies references the influence of David Hammons’ In the Hood (1993).

In the center of the four Amends flags there are three stacks of targets, originally produced in a prison print shop, that have been shot to match the pattern of bullet wounds in the autopsy reports for Michael Brown, Malissa Wiliams and Ezel Ford.

Amends | excessive force (8' x 12’ United States flag produced at Central California Women’s facility with custom embroidery by the artist, three stacks of paper targets printed in a California Department of Corrections print shop and altered by the artist, three black ‘hoodies’ altered by the artist).

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