Breonna

A tribute that I never should have had occasion to make.

Breonna, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that it took you being murdered in your home for people like me to notice. I’m sorry that my complicity in a white supremacist system has led to the same fate for countless others. I’m sorry that in the time it took me to make this portrait, others have been senselessly killed. I’m sorry that I haven’t done better. I want to. I want to listen and learn. Rest in power.