(state of) emergency vehicle lights, chain link fence, motion sensor. 10′ x 5′, 2018.
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Caging the Colors was an installation for the inaugural edition of the light festival BOREALIS. Composed of contemporary and vintage emergency vehicle lights enclosed in a chain link fence cage, the installation was suspended at an angle 10 feet off the ground in an alley in downtown Seattle.
Caging the Colors references the history of police authoritarianism and racism in this country, the immoral detention of immigrants along the southern border, and the prison-industrial complex that is the end result for many people of color without the benefits of economic and social privilege in this country.
