Limited edition of 5 copies, signed by the author. Special Collections has copy 4/5 signed by Nia Easley. IaU Illustrations on verso of each double leaf; interspersed with 18 leaves of text, most printed on both sides. Cover title. "On February 26, 2012, a teenage boy named Trayvon Martin was walking home in the rain, chatting on his phone with a friend and eating skittles. Then he was killed. The ensuing media frenzy gave us multiple possible narratives; most of the factual evidence depended upon the unreliable testimony of the killer, George Zimmerman. I believe we can never truly know what happened that night, but in in an attempt to get to the humanity of Trayvon's last moments, I have created a broader counter-narrative in the form of twelve stories. Twelve is the number of people on a typical jury. A dozen different re-tellings of those fatal events all told from a first-person perspective as if each of the storytellers were experiencing that evening as their self. This book is structured in a way to allow the reader to pull out each set of pages into a long row and let the book stand up independently. Once standing, multiple readers can read all of the stories together. Inside of each set of pages is a series of paintings based on a stencil depicting a person in a hoodie - a symbol that took on a new life with this case."--From the artist.; Signed and numbered by the artist. "This is a handmade artists book in an edition of 5. The cover is silkscreened ink on book cloth, the interior pages are a combination of inkjet printing on bamboo paper, acrylic painting on bamboo paper, and laserjet printing on grey archival paper. The stories enclosed are related to the events of February 26, 2012 when Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman. The narratives are a meditation of sorts, into the kind of people we are together and how we see others" -- http://www.wordsmattershow.org/nia-easley "In memory of Trayvon Martin. Many thanks to: [list of names] without you this book would not have been possible. Typeface Adobe Faramond. Created by Nia Easley 2015." --Inside back cover.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)951535293
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.