Guise
Lives
Lost
Us
Great
Costs
Became
Our Hope
So Came:
Of Change
After
Rampage.
Feared by kin
We were in
Peace within.
Black and Brown –
Hate entrenched
Scorn renown.
With melanin
And martyred by
The fear within.
He terrorized
And fantasized
The genocide.
In dark, clouded haze
They hid as they gazed
Amidst their last days.
Discrimination
Of our condition.
Now these bodies lay…
A visual digital collage created in honor of the victims at Pulse nightclub integrating this poem and the images below.
This drawing was created in memory of the Pulse victims. Featured are 49 black shapes in memory of the 49 souls we lost in this massacre and 53 white shapes in memory of the injured survivors. Together, these 102 shapes create the body and foreground of this drawing. Additionally, featured in the background are other shapes presented in the colors of the rainbow, in honor of the queer and trans communities against whom this attack took place. Unfortunately, as of June 12, 2017, two of the survivors have also passed away due to external circumstances.
Featured are the faces of the 49 victims of the Pulse massacre, with their images layered on top of one another to simulate the haze of this attack and in honor of the queer and allied lives we lost at that fateful night.
This is another digital composite of the faces of the victims, overlaid on top of the drawing I originally created for this project.
This image is a more somber tribute to the victims. Similar to the two composite images above, the faces of the victims have been presented in grayscale, with the only color in this digital collage due to the drawing on which their images have been overlaid.