benign fruit | 2021

Featured in Black Lives Matter x Museum of Social Justice Exhibit New Black City: A World Without Police at the Museum of Social Justice, May 13–June 6, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA.

At the time of the painting, my brother Brian Leslie Statler, Jr. (BJ) was the 280th person of 488 shot and killed by the police according to the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force Report 2019.” The year ended with 999 people s