Floyd’s Life Mattered

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Floyd’s Life Mattered

Philip Pacheco (2020)

This compassionately drawn portrait, displayed at face height to be encountered up close, concentrates on the simple human reality of Floyd’s death. 

Here was a man arrested in an investigation of a non-violent crime (passing counterfeit notes) who did not survive his arrest. 

Floyd was alive, then a white police officer Dennis Chauvin presses his knee onto George Floyd neck for eight minutes and 42 seconds and suddenly he was dead.

This unadorned portrait is heart-breaking. It communicates the unadorned truth tearing America apart: 

Floyd’s life mattered.