The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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8.00" x 5.50"
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10.00" x 7.50"
We Hold These Names to be Self-Evident Poster
by Aberjhani
$17.30
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We Hold These Names to be Self-Evident poster by Aberjhani. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The epidemic of unarmed African Americans getting shot or killed in other ways by policemen is not something America is proud of and many police... more
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Comments (10)
Artist's Description
The epidemic of unarmed African Americans getting shot or killed in other ways by policemen is not something America is proud of and many police departments around the country have started implementing reforms to correct the issue. However, for the people listed on this artwork, “We Hold These Names to be Self-Evident,” the changes are obviously coming too late.
“We Hold These Names to be Self-Evident” is a mixed media fine art painting composed of colored text, digital photography, portraiture, and spiritual surrealism. The central images of violent assaults and listed names are underscored by golden wings symbolizing release from physical-world concerns. Just as I was completing this art-piece by adding what I thought would be the last name to go on it, word came that unarmed 47-year-old Andre Maurice Hill of Columbus, Ohio, had been shot dead by police while in a friend’s garage and holding a cell phone. It was the second such questionable shooting in the city in...
About Aberjhani
I was born and raised in the southeastern United States, then spent many years, while pursuing my education and serving in the U.S. Air Force, traveling around America and the world. Much of story is told in recent book releases like Greeting Flannery OConnor at the Back Door of My Mind and Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah. Artwork by me is featured on the cover of both books. My last 4 public exhibits were at the Savannah/Hilton Head Airport Art Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, USA, and during a cultural arts event in the historic Lafayette Square in the same city. I am currently completing an artbook project on different challenge which humanity has been facing in the 2020s, with text contributions from writers around the world. My...
DANNY LOWE
A list that did not have to be and all in 2020! If the good police of this country could help weed out the racists and bad ones of their number, it would be a step in the right direction. It is possible but it takes backbone and commitment.
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Thanks so much for the revisit VIVA Anderson. Maybe the recent nomination of BLM for a Nobel Peace Prize will help reduce the kind of gun violence which ended the lives of those noted with this artwork.
VIVA Anderson
Back, to again be reminded! And to thank you, for this moving, beautiful testimonial........VIVA
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I appreciate that Danny, although I wish the situation was very different from what it is.
DANNY LOWE
You are so right!
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Thank you very much Anne. Much respect indeed.
Anne Quinn
Powerful beautiful work depicting great Respect for the victims of injustice.
VIVA Anderson
I believe, too !!
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It is sad my friend but the good news is the number of people growing in awareness and helping to correct the deadly situation is increasing. There are, I believe, more on the side of justice than on the side of injustice.
VIVA Anderson
Aberjhani, This IS terrible,sad Witnes for those innocents, named, and historically, unnamed. Man’s inhumanity to man has been known well before my early Knowing. Would that your work influences Mankind to find it’s inner grace, about, race!!! Kudos , fav, admired, supportive...VIVA