Pieta: Thoughts & Prayers
2022
Wood, Ink, Yarn, Bullets, Stuffed Animals, Plastic Figurines
55 x 30 x 80
As a school teacher who spends quality time in closets practicing dying or being a “hero”, the Uvalde shooting was the final catalyst to create a work that is a visceral reaction to the epidemic gun violence in the country, of school shootings and the shallow offering of “thoughts & prayers”