1,219,487* = 14 days + 2 hrs + 44 min + 47 sec

*on-line COVID updating ceased on 04.13.24; now to envision a memoriam – one mark per second, every second, for more than 2 weeks. continuous.

begins with one person and a metronome that is set into motion; evolves toward a group that flows as this. marks start on one wall – glass or otherwise – and expand to all sides, including the ceiling and the floor. throughout, participants either singly or in flow retain a preciseness to the mark-making that functions as the memoriam pulse [for & w/ EAC].

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The context and the undercounting. || The negation and disregard in white America for the severity and embodied impact of (not just) COVID-19 on Black communities does not exist outside of lived disparity – it is the direct cause as well as the direct result of it. So, how does disparity arise? Can we agree that it doesn’t cause itself? For those of us who are white and care about racial health inequity, how do we start saying the quiet part louder?

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[2017]