877,240 = 10 days + 3 hrs + 40 min + 40 sec

In the Wake_Chapter One | Christina Sharpe | Do you see?

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The context and the reality of undercounting. This work arises from the simultaneous realities that while 1 in 3 Black Americans know somebody who has been hospitalized from or died of COVID-19, fewer than 1 in 8 White Americans inhabit this space of personal and community grief. 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 this lived disparity – it is the direct cause as well as the direct result of it. And how does disparity arise? Can we agree that it doesn’t cause itself? || And for those of us who are White: how can we shoulder the weight of this reality so that those who grieve can properly honor their experience and who they mourn?

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[Western Prom × Carroll; gelatin silver print; 2017]