The Cape
This performance project was initiated after seeing the video of George Floyd’s murder. My cape is stitched with a letter to my father who was a white police officer in Baltimore. It is hand-embroidered. It tells of the domestic violence our family suffered while he was a cop. Though it is a personal letter, it is interwoven with various contexts that converge with civic conversations, and with some political events occurring right now and in the long history of America. The law enforcement system gave my father full power to act as he wished with impunity. In large part, because he wore a badge of law, he held immense reign over our lives. I have been traveling with my cape to police stations, city plazas, museums, and protests around the country.
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