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Dear <<First Name*>>,

I love this season with its brilliant colors, cozy cups of hot tea, crisp air, and the rich smell of decaying leaves, which reminds me of the cycles of life. I hope that you are doing well and can enjoy the small, but beautiful things this autumn.

What if it were you?

Say Their Names, 12 by 16 inches, acrylic paint and paper on canvas, 2020.

When George Floyd was murdered I was outraged. Everything is wrong about this situation, a man was willfully murdered in broad daylight by the police. People are screaming in rage but no one is listening. I painted Say Their Names to bring more understanding to the Black Lives Matter movement.

As I transcribed all the names of black people killed by police, for this painting, I imagined what the person might have been like and what their loved ones are feeling. What if it were you or your loved one? 

The shear number of names which I included were only from the last 3 years but what about the people before that? What about the people in the last decade, century, or since Africans were first brought here as slaves?


Notable Artist

Las Meninas, painted in 1656 by Diego Velazquez is more than just a depiction of the Spanish King Phillip IV, his daughter, Infanta Margaret Theresa, and the royal court. This painting is considered to be one of Velazquez's very best. The composition is very theatrical and plays with the intended subject of focus.

The painter himself stands at the left in front of a large canvas on which he is working, while the king and queen, reflected in the mirror quietly look on. All eyes seem to look at the little princess but her gaze locks with your own, the viewer. Thus it is an entirely consuming painting as it emphasizes the viewer as well as memorializing all the players in the painting. 

Valezaquez, while spending almost all of his life as a royal courtier and court painter, captured likenesses as no other painter at the time. He did not make sketches or preliminary drawings and his strokes were confident and he did not overwork paintings. He painted his subjects as they really were, as human beings, capturing the truth of the moment.


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Sam Marroquin

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